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On 15 July 2013 21:08, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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No. It was not part of that group. The install was a part of a bigger |
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set of packages and I haven't read the output. It is my bad. on the |
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other hand, the tutorial why does not mention about anything? |
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I added the the user to that group and the wicd working well. I |
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dropped networkmanager as far as it was possible. It is part of the |
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unity environment. |
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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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Yes, it happened the same with wicd as well. After I added the user to |
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the plugdev group everything is working fine. |
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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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I understand Alan feelings. The strange is that Ubuntu use wicd. I |
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don't know whether by default or not. |
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