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On 26 September 2011 15:12, Spidey / Claudio <spideybr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I |
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> also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to |
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> connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a |
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> realistic configuration file, which would let you boot with network up |
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> equally while home and while at work. At the end of the day, I just |
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> regressed to no boot configuration and went with wicd or |
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> NetworkManager. |
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> When I came back to configuring my desktop, it felt strange to run |
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> dhcp at boot time, I even tried migrating a wired box to |
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> NetworkManager, but ended with a static config nevertheless. |
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There's horses for courses I guess, wicd et al works for most average needs. |
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On the other hand reading through the examples/comments for |
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/etc/conf.d/net and wpa_supplicant.conf takes the whole of 10-20 |
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minutes. Once you grasp the basics it does not present any difficulty |
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configuring it in the future, unless you have special bridging and |
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routing needs in which case it may take some extra time. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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