On Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:30:54 BST Wol wrote: > On 19/04/2024 17:02, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Just reporting back. > > > > I built a new system - using NetworkManager (after all I've said about > > it!) - now that it's so much quicker using binpkgs. > > > > It all went fairly smoothly, taking one step at a time through changing > > several USE flags, installing various tools, and finally, adding the new > > wlan0 interface to shorewall. > > > > The machine can now boot with either wired or wireless network, or both. > > > > Thank you, all who helped. > > Any chance you can document those steps?
Yes, I ought to do that. I just need to remember... ;-) > I'm struggling to get wireless working on my laptop - the statement in the > handbook Wireless networking on Linux is usually pretty straightforward. > There are three ways of configuring wifi: graphical clients, text-mode > interfaces, and command-line interfaces. > > just seems to be complete rubbish :-( It does seem that way, indeed. It was certainly no use to me. > As far as I can tell, my kernel is bringing up the hardware fine - dmesg > tells me my wireless interface has come up fine with iwlwifi, and has > been renamed from wlan0 to wlo1. Network manager detects the ethernet > connection but can't even see the wireless connection. > > Ummm ... of course, sod has just struck, I've rebooted, started Network > Manager (which I thought I'd uninstalled) and wonder of wonders I have > internet! > > But some documentation would certainly be appreciated. I'll see what I can do in the next day or two. -- Regards, Peter.
