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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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Is your user included in the plugdev group, as the networkmanager |
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ebuild recommends? |
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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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Again, try adding your user to the plugdev group. |
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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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If the problem is that the user is not in the plugdev group, it will |
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also happen with wicd, which makes this one of the worsts pieces of |
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advice I have seen in this list. Which is a lot to say. |
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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. |
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It works for me. In all kind of networks in several continents, with |
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all kind of WEP, WPA, and WPA2 networks, connecting through my |
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cellphone and obviously with ethernet too. |
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Funny you said that Alan, when was the last time you heard about a |
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problem with NM in the list? I count less than 20 mails *mentioning* |
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NM in the list in 2013, and none of them are (IIRC) direct problems |
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with NM. |
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> You should not use software like that. |
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You should do a little more research before saying something like that |
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about a piece of software that just works most of the time. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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