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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:16:23AM -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: |
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> * Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> [130715 15:09]: |
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> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> > > |
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> > > emerge wicd with the USE flags of your choice. |
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> > > |
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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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> Hardly |
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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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> It seems to work for very simple network setups that don't change often. |
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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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> Most of us who have found out how horrible NM is have stopped using it |
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> long ago so you don't see us posting with problems. |
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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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> As long as we're telling people what to do I'll tell you to step out |
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> of your ivory tower once in a while to get a broader picture of the |
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> world. |
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> Todd |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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A: Top-posting. |
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