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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700 |
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> Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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>> On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> [-- snip --] |
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>> > Speaking as someone experienced in running Gentoo but certainly not |
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>> > a power user - I don't write scripts or program at all - I gotta |
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>> > say I don't like that way this is all working on my system so far. |
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>> > TO BE CLEAR, I am SURE that I don't have everything configured as |
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>> > well as it could possibly be, but I also suspect that would be true |
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>> > for the majority of new wireless users on Gentoo after only a day |
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>> > or two. |
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> Just to throw a small spanner in the works.... |
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> All my wpa issues were solved long ago by dumping the gentoo net |
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> scripts, then installing and running wicd where it all JustWorks(TM). |
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> init.d scripts work great for static servers. |
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> wicd works great for mobile laptops. |
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> There's very little overlap between these two. |
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> Have you considered using wicd at all? |
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Alan, |
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I haven't seriously considered wicd because I don't understand what |
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it is, how it links into everything else on the system. |
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For a user type the idea of dumping init scripts in favor of |
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something else is a _really_ foreign idea to me. As someone who has |
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used Gentoo for at least a decade please understand that I've never |
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done _anything_ like that before. I'm sure I can figure out more or |
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less how the scripts work, but there are other things I'd worry about |
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like some some system update deleting them, etc. |
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Reading the wicd homepage it looks like it could help, but how many |
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hours am I going to have to invest to get it running? Understand that |
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I've already dumped maybe 10 hours into getting here. I figure I'll |
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need another 10 hours of work - reading web pages, trying things out |
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and failing - before I feel like I should ask a question here, so |
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that's 20 hours minimum. Please understand that wireless was working |
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on this machine in Windows in under 10 minutes - not 20 hours! |
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The wicd homepage makes it all look so painless so I guess I should |
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go give it a try. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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