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On Monday 13 December 2010 07:05:20 Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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> On 12/12/2010 04:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:34 on Sunday 12 December 2010, Valmor |
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> > de |
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> > |
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> > Almeida did opine thusly: |
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> >> On 12/12/2010 03:54 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >>> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:51 on Sunday 12 December 2010, |
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> >>> Valmor de |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Almeida did opine thusly: |
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> >>>> Hello, |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> I would like to have net.wlan0 started only when the wireless card is |
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> >>>> switched on. I am using ifplugd for starting net.eth0 when an ethernet |
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> >>>> cable is plugged in. Is there a similar utility for net.wlan0? Ideally |
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> >>>> so that it is configurable in conjunction with ifplugd. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Chuck all that net.* bullshit out the window and use wicd instead. |
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> >> |
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> >> Okay I am new to this wireless stuff. If I do |
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> >> |
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> >> -> emerge -vp wicd |
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> >> |
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> >> I get |
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> >> |
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> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> >> |
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> >> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> >> [ebuild N ] net-wireless/wireless-tools-29 USE="nls -multicall" 0 |
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> >> kB [ebuild N ] dev-python/dbus-python-0.83.0-r1 USE="-doc |
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> >> -examples -test" 483 kB |
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> >> [ebuild N ] dev-python/urwid-0.9.9.1 USE="-examples" 233 kB |
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> >> [ebuild N ] x11-misc/ktsuss-1.4 273 kB |
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> >> [ebuild N ] net-misc/wicd-1.7.0 USE="X gtk ncurses nls pm-utils |
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> >> (-ioctl) -libnotify" 402 kB |
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> >> |
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> >> Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 1,390 kB |
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> >> |
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> >> which will install wireless-tools. This does not mean I need to use it |
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> >> to configure my wireless net right? |
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> > |
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> > You are going to take the entirety of net.* except net.lo as installed by |
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> > baselayout/openrc/whatever and get rid of it. That stuff never worked |
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> > right for anything except servers with fixed IPs |
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> > |
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> >> I am asking this because I am using |
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> >> wpa_supplicant and in the /etc/conf.d/net config file, I can only use |
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> >> one or the other. |
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> > |
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> > Discard /etc/conf.d/net |
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> > |
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> > That's part of the thing you are getting rid of |
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> > |
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> >> Since wicd deals with both wired and wireless, should I also get rid of |
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> >> ifplugd? |
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> > |
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> > Yes. |
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> > |
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> > Just following the wicd docs and it will all work just fine |
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> |
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> Thank you very much. I don't know how this magic is happening since I |
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> had posted another message in this list on problems with wpa_supplicant |
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> and frequent dropouts during connection. I am now sending this e-mail |
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> with a wireless connection. For the record, what I had to do was: |
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> emerge --unmerge ifplugd wpa_supplicant |
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> rm /etc/wpa_supplicant/*.conf |
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> rm /etc/conf.d/net |
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> touch /etc/conf.d/net |
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> rm /etc/init.d/net.eth0 |
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> rm /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 |
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> emerge -av wicd |
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> emerge wicd |
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> /etc/init.d/wicd start |
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> rc-update add wicd boot |
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> reboot and check wired connection. |
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> disconnect, turn on wireless |
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> wicd-client -n |
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Interesting! Can wicd manage encryption WPA/WPA2 without wpa_supplicant? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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