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On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:12 PM, deface <deface@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> > I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time |
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> > now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a |
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> > LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. |
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> > I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some |
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> > stuff. The machine is an Asus EEE 701 with an Atheros card. I'm using |
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> > ndiswrapper trying to avoid patching the madwifi drivers, waiting for |
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> > the official commit. My first try was NetworkManager, beautiful tool, |
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> > allowed me to manage my wired and open wireless connections fine, but |
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> > once I need WPA for wireless at the University, it failed on me. It |
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> > seems it can't talk to wpa_supplicant the right way. One possible fix |
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> > would be downgrade to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant, but its not in |
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> > portage anymore, so I quit. |
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> > Next I tried some gtk stuff, scripting stuff, gosh, so many. |
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> > End up with WICD, wich for the most part works fine. I didn't have the |
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> > time to check why the heck it tries to connect to "None" more often |
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> > then it tries with the SSID I"m telling it to (maybe some |
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> > configuration file lost in the way), but anyway, change driver from |
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> > "ndiswrapper" or "wext" and it eventually works. |
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> > What are you guys using? I"m accepting suggestions! |
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> I haven't read the rest of the replies, but have you tried going UP, and |
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> not DOWN? meaning a CVS version of NM? This is a beautiful application, |
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> which has filled many much needed holes in the world of linux and wireless. |
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> NM is under rapid development and many changes are commited. (if you've gone |
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> up, sorry .. like i said; haven't read the rest of the replies on this one.) |
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I have run both stable and testing versions on portage. I even tried |
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compiling from source, and that failed, can't recall the reason. |
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I'm still looking for a stable network manager app. I'm currently |
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switching from Gnome to XFCE, so I'm gonna try some other apps, like |
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pynetworkmanager... |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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