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On 15/07/2013 18:44, András Csányi wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I would like to get some help regarding networkmanager and KDE. |
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> I have installed the networkmanager package on my machine and I also |
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> have networkmanagement kde application installed. My problem is that |
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> as a user I'm not able to abb network connection using network manager |
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> in kde. There is no way to run this application as root and I'm not |
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> able to login as root into KDE. |
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> At the moment I don't have any network connection on that machine. If |
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> I want it then I have to remove networkmanager package and let the |
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> rc-process to handle the networks. |
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> Is there a place where that is described how possible to solve this |
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> issue? Is there a tutorial about networkmanager where the |
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> configuration is described or something like this? What right is |
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> needed or something? I have googled a few hours but I haven't found |
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> anything. |
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> I appreciate your help! |
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unmerge nm and everything associated with it. |
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Comment out all lines in /etc/conf.d/net |
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emerge wicd with the USE flags of your choice. |
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All your problems will instantly go away, stay away, and wicd will do |
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the right thing always for networking. I promise. |
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networkmanager is a horribly broken piece of shit that per user reports |
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never seems to actually work for people. You should not use software |
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like that. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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