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Apparently, though unproven, at 15:50 on Wednesday 13 October 2010, daid kahl |
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> I guess what might be helpful right now is how to purge my networking |
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> stuff and just start it all from scratch. There is so much garbage |
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> installed right now so I can hack it together that it's just a mess |
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> (this happened because I can get it to function eventually, yuck). |
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Some tips that will get you sorted about 19 times out of 20: |
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Yes, purge all the /etc/init/net.<interface> stuff. I've yet to get that |
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method to work on notebooks, which can be anywhere anyplace when started up. |
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That system is great for servers and desktops that don't move around, lousy |
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for notebooks. |
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Dump NetworkManager. This too I never got to work reliably, if at all. It |
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seems to want to hook into the distro default stuff, meaning /etc/init.d/net.* |
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and has the same issues. |
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Use wicd. Really, use wicd. |
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All your problems will just magically go away. It is designed to do what |
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notebooks need done - dynamically connect to the best network connection at |
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any given time. It's highly scriptable too. |
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The number of people here over the years complaining about nm is obscene. |
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The number of people here over the years complaining about wicd is close to 0. |
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Seriously, just use wicd, dump the rest. |
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