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Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to |
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work properly under Gentoo? When I attempt to use either of those |
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utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay |
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connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time. |
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Instead, it continually disassociates and deauthenticates, only for |
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nm/wicd to hop right back on. However, if I manually configure |
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wpa_supplicant for a given SSID and start it via the init script |
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directly, I don't have any such problems. |
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Additionally, I can't get either applet to actually save settings (like |
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known networks, passwords, etc.) which means that I'm continually |
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interrupted by a prompt for the wireless password. |
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What I'm really looking for is a graphical utility that will let me |
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connect to specific newly-detected wireless networks without having to |
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edit the WPA configuration and restart it; NetworkManager and WICD seem |
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to be the most popular. Any other suggestions would also be welcome. |
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--Mike |
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