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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>>> > |
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>>> |
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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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>>> > |
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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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Do your reading and such, but don't forget IRC exists. :) |
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:wq |