Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

[Darren Kirby]

Hey Bill,

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
> Gentoo networking is a bit on the wild side - it doesnt seem to work
> nicely with third party tools without a lot of work.
>
> My fix was to manually configure each location (and a couple of general
> ones such as wifi hotspot, and basic wired dhcp) as I came across them
> and copy the resulting config files to separate directories.  Then when
> I need to return to a location I just copy the matching set of files
> back and restart services.  Allows a "profile" based approach based on
> site - some need different screen resolutions, apache or bind running,
> external projector, firewall settings for VoIP or not and so on - all
> able to be scripted.

So are you saying you are writing configs in the normal gentoo
/etc/conf.d/net format? Not sure I'm following you here...

> Very flexible as I control it with a shell script linked to a gtkdialog
> for site selection one click to open dialog, second click selects site.
> I have decided not to automate site selection (such as netwwork
> detection on cable plugin) as I wanted control :)
>
> So my reccomendation is forget networkmanager (particularly that heap
> of !#$#%$@) and the like and roll your own.
>
> BillK
>

Yeah...starting to think that myself. I think conf.d/net allows you to
write separate configs based on essid, so perhaps I'll just go with
that. I'm sure I'll be using the same core group of APs a good 80% or
so of the time, it will just be annoying to have to scan and configure
manually the other 20%...

Perhaps I'll give Wicd a shot, if if no joy there just stick to what I
know and do it on the CLI...

Thanks,

D
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