Re: [arch-general] netcfg drops wifi connection

2012-12-25 Thread Arch Zealot
I upgraded b43-fwcutter from 015 to 017 and reinstalled b43-firmware but there was no improvement. What solved my problem is this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=780128#p780128 I should note that this problem does not appear with ubuntu 12.04 LTS on the same hardware. Anyway, e

[arch-general] netcfg drops wifi connection

2012-12-21 Thread Arch Zealot
Every time i connect to a wireless network (no matter how strong the signal is), after 1-2 minutes, the connection is dropped and i have to manually start it again. This never happens with the ethernet connection. I'm currently testing this with a WEP connection using wifi-menu to connect to

Re: [arch-general] netcfg

2012-10-10 Thread Florian Pritz
On 10.10.2012 20:33, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: > Small question: In what format do the devs expect you to submit patches? > Not that I'm working on anything now, but it would spare time later on. We prefer git send-email to the project mailing lists (arch-projects, pacman-dev, aur-dev, arch-releng

Re: [arch-general] netcfg

2012-10-10 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 10.10.2012 09:27, schrieb Dimitri Sabadie: >> Hi, >> >> I want to contribute as a developper, but I don’t know where to begin. I >> subscribe to the bug tracker and found an issue I really wanna fix : >> >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/tas

Re: [arch-general] netcfg

2012-10-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.10.2012 09:27, schrieb Dimitri Sabadie: > Hi, > > I want to contribute as a developper, but I don’t know where to begin. I > subscribe to the bug tracker and found an issue I really wanna fix : > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29337?only_watched=1&type%5B0%5D=&sev%5B0%5D=&due%5B0%5D=&cat

[arch-general] netcfg

2012-10-10 Thread Dimitri Sabadie
Hi, I want to contribute as a developper, but I don’t know where to begin. I subscribe to the bug tracker and found an issue I really wanna fix : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29337?only_watched=1&type%5B0%5D=&sev%5B0%5D=&due%5B0%5D=&cat%5B0%5D=&status%5B0%5D=open&percent%5B0%5D=&reported%5B0%5

[arch-general] netcfg - virtual network on a loopback interface

2012-06-30 Thread Sudaraka Wijesinghe
Hi Everyone, I was using a virtual network within my computer to run a web server for development work. Following is the way it setup: /etc/network.d/vlan CONNECTION='ethernet' DESCRIPTION='Virtual LAN' INTERFACE='lo:1' IP='static' ADDR='192.168.123.1'

Re: [arch-general] netcfg status?

2012-05-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.05.2012 13:16, schrieb Geert Hendrickx: > Hi, > > What is the status of netcfg 2.8.x? When will it hit [core] ? > > I have been using it succesfully on my workstation and on two VPS > (static IPv4 + IPv6 profiles). > > > Geert Jouke, should we move it? In general, if you want the

[arch-general] netcfg status?

2012-05-09 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hi, What is the status of netcfg 2.8.x? When will it hit [core] ? I have been using it succesfully on my workstation and on two VPS (static IPv4 + IPv6 profiles). Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: ge...@hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam m

[arch-general] netcfg inconsistency

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I'm using netcfg heavily on my laptop, both for the wireless and wired adapters. Particularly, I use the net-auto-wirelss and net-auto-wired scripts to enable auto-configuration of these adapters. The net-auto-wireless script of the most recent netcfg package sources /etc/conf.d/netcfg.

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.12.2011 16:05, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Thank you Thomas :) > > so the easiest way for me seems to install a DE with a GUI network manager. > IIUC 'pacman -U' would be the way to install downloaded packages. You could first try this: ip link set eth0 up netcfg pppoe This should work. As J

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 12/8/11, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: >> Hi :) >> >> ... > > The problem here is that the 'eth0' interface is not up when pppd is > launched. This would be easily solved by running > ip link set eth0 up > before launching pppd, but netcfg doesn't know that

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Cédric Girard
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > so the easiest way for me seems to install a DE with a GUI network manager. I'm not sure network-manager is the way to go. When enabled it makes just the configuration a nightmare because standard configuration file are either ignored or repl

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Thomas Bächler Sent: Thu 12/8/2011 13:14 Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi :) > > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Networ

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi :) > > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Network is down'. > I never set up a wired pppoe connection manually before. > > Cheers! > > Ralf > > PS: I've seen that there

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet:Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PPS:( "Of cause, I could download the needed stuff using Part Magic, reboot into Arch and then install the packages, but I would like to install the DEs when I'm booted into Arch." :S In passing. "I would like to download + install" the packages booted to Arch and so I need an Internet connecti

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Pardon, the M$ web-thingy is a PITA, next time it claims that something went wrong, I'll first check http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-December/date.html.

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Karol Babioch Sent: Thu 12/8/2011 10:53 Hi, Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Network is do

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Karol Babioch Sent: Thu 12/8/2011 10:53 Hi, Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Network is do

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Network is down' Just to make sure that netcfg is really what you want. Do you plan to install a (rich) desktop environment later on? A

[arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error sending/receiving pppoe packet: Network is down'. I never set up a wired pppoe connection manually before. Cheers! Ralf PS: I've seen that there are 2 entries to edit and one might or might not be a typo. Perh

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-12 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from scrat's message of 2011-10-12 22:44:14 +0200: > On 10/12/2011 02:43 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-10-12 14:06:22 +0200: > >> Am 12.10.2011 12:54, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > I'll also try the b43 driver again, but it didn't wor

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-12 Thread scrat
On 10/12/2011 02:43 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-10-12 14:06:22 +0200: Am 12.10.2011 12:54, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: I'll also try the b43 driver again, but it didn't work for my [14e4:4315] BCM4312 in the past. Guess it's worth a try though.

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-12 Thread Zanterian
On 10/12/2011 11:43 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Does anyone know of a live-CD which contains those drivers? This way I could likely rule out a problem with Arch. I'll try to get a useful log tomorrow and maybe I can test some more with my neighbors wlan for comparison. Have experience with

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-12 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-10-12 14:06:22 +0200: > Am 12.10.2011 12:54, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > >> I'll also try the b43 driver again, but it didn't work for my > >> [14e4:4315] BCM4312 in the past. Guess it's worth a try though. > > > > So I enabled logging with -d but I

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.10.2011 12:54, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: >> I'll also try the b43 driver again, but it didn't work for my >> [14e4:4315] BCM4312 in the past. Guess it's worth a try though. > > So I enabled logging with -d but I don't understand the cause of the > problem from this log (last 500 lines atta

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-12 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Philipp Überbacher's message of 2011-10-08 19:22:54 +0200: > Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-10-08 18:42:35 +0200: > > Am 08.10.2011 14:42, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > > > The 'rfkill list' output is identical, ifconfig is different, but I > > > don't know how to inte

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-08 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-10-08 18:42:35 +0200: > Am 08.10.2011 14:42, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > > The 'rfkill list' output is identical, ifconfig is different, but I > > don't know how to interpret the output: > > > > -wlan0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 metric 1 > > +wlan0: fla

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.10.2011 14:42, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > The 'rfkill list' output is identical, ifconfig is different, but I > don't know how to interpret the output: > > -wlan0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 metric 1 > +wlan0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 metric 1 That doesn't say a lot, the "RUNNING" flag disappear

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-08 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-10-08 13:48:36 +0200: > Am 08.10.2011 13:28, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > > I get just cable at home and wireless at university, > > everything's fine, except that I still get disconnected from the > > university wlan about every 30 minutes. net-auto-

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.10.2011 13:28, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > I get just cable at home and wireless at university, > everything's fine, except that I still get disconnected from the > university wlan about every 30 minutes. net-auto-wireless didn't change > a thing in this regard. Here's an excerpt from every

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-08 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: > Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: > > Hi there, > > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > > manually. I think th

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:54:51PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > As a somewhat hackish workaround there's the gconf-no-polkit package in > AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41983 > Works well enough for me. I also need gconf for a single package only. Good tip, thanks. But I'd r

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:55:25PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > This makes no sense.  I don't mind if they use their own sticks > > on their own laptop. I do if they use it one this particular > > machine. > > This is surely a very uncommon scenario. It is easily solved by > tweaking the PK po

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tavian Barnes
On 29 September 2011 06:55, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> >>> What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if >>> I understand correctly, is that udisks all

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-29 12:36:30 +0200: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if > > I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically > > at the m

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-29 12:35:56 +0200: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: > >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher > >> wrote: > >> > meanwhile and pro

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > >> What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if >> I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically >> at the machine to mount

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-29 12:36:30 +0200: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if > > I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically > > at the m

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Martti Kühne
Well from what I know from my days back with $certainotherdistro, PK mounts local drives in /media and remote drives in ~/.gvfs . currently I use mount(8) manually, since I don't use a big DE nor filebrowser (IMO too many of them make use of stuff like this) and wouldn't make use of this additional

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if > I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically > at the machine to mount the usb drive, but not remote users. > > This makes sense for t

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher >> wrote: >> > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit >> > requires consolekit

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 22:52:42 +0200: > Am 28.09.2011 14:33, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > > Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: > >> Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: > >>> Hi there, > >>> I use netcfg for my university wlan (edur

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit > > requires consolekit and both mean configuration and maintenance trouble. > > Just a qu

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Yet some Gnome/KDE desktop apps are able to mount even when > running for a normal user, when PK agrees (which in my eyes > is a subvertion of a policy set by the sysadmin). How do they > do this if neither 'mount' nor the syscalls used by

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:14:24PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Sep 28, 2011 3:53 PM, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > > The way it works is that both the frontend (the unprivileged process, > > e.g. the GUI for setting your timezone) and the backend (the > > privileged process, e.g. the app th

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sep 28, 2011 3:53 PM, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > > Or maybe I'm missing a third possible scenario. > > The way it works is that both the frontend (the unprivileged process, > e.g. the GUI for setting your timezone) and the backend

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:55:30PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher >> wrote: >> > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit >> > requires consolekit and both

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.09.2011 14:33, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: >> Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: >>> Hi there, >>> I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while >>> but after a couple of minutes I get disconn

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:55:30PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit > > requires consolekit and both mean configuration and maintenance trouble. > > Just a quick c

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit > requires consolekit and both mean configuration and maintenance trouble. Just a quick comment in case someone happens to read this: neither PK nor CK should requi

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Cédric Girard's message of 2011-09-28 14:37:01 +0200: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > > It's important to me that wlan is completely disabled when ethernet is > > available. > > > > Ethernet routes should be mounted with a lower Metric than wireles

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 13:37:29 +0200: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Philipp wrote: > > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > > manually. I think that

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Cédric Girard
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > It's important to me that wlan is completely disabled when ethernet is > available. > Ethernet routes should be mounted with a lower Metric than wireless one. Thus, even if you have both connections active the ethernet path should be us

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: > Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: > > Hi there, > > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > > manually. I think th

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Philipp wrote: > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some > kind of connection renewal

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: > Hi there, > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some > kind of connection renewal

[arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Philipp
Hi there, I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some kind of connection renewal doesn't work for some reason. Any idea what cou

Re: [arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?

2011-07-05 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
On 2011/7/5 XeCycle wrote: > Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connections, however > I encountered some problems, and I didn't find the solution in the > manual or the ArchWiki.  So I wonder whether a complete documentation is > available. There is no complete documentation, and

Re: [arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?

2011-07-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.07.2011 16:45, schrieb XeCycle: > Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connections, however > I encountered some problems, and I didn't find the solution in the > manual or the ArchWiki. So I wonder whether a complete documentation is > available. Heh, that is a weak point of

Re: [arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?

2011-07-05 Thread Alper Kanat
It wasn't there last time I checked.. :) Thanks man! --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 18:00, wrote: > I added a section in the wiki just the other day: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/**index.php/Netcfg#Configuring_** > a_bridge_for_use_with_VMs

Re: [arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?

2011-07-05 Thread joseph . mitchd
I added a section in the wiki just the other day: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg#Configuring_a_bridge_for_use_with_VMs -Mitch On , Alper Kanat wrote: Hey There, In addition to these, I can't find any documentation regarding bridged connections need for such cases like ope

Re: [arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?

2011-07-05 Thread Alper Kanat
Hey There, In addition to these, I can't find any documentation regarding bridged connections need for such cases like openvpn and virtual machine needs. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 17:45, XeCycle wrote: > Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connec

[arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?

2011-07-05 Thread XeCycle
Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connections, however I encountered some problems, and I didn't find the solution in the manual or the ArchWiki. So I wonder whether a complete documentation is available. The two problems I encountered are: 1. Ad-Hoc wireless lost ESSID. I used

Re: [arch-general] [netcfg] Getting rid of wireless_tools

2011-06-20 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:13 +0200, "Rémy Oudompheng" wrote: > Hello, > > wpa_supplicant is supposed to provide most of the wireless_tools > functionality. I have set up a branch of netcfg that replaces all uses > of wireless_tools by wpa_supplicant. > > http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/net

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-20 Thread James Rayner
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:34 +0200, "Rémy Oudompheng" wrote: > On 2011/6/20 Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > >> > >> netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. > >> > >> - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used > >

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 20 Jun 2011 03:34 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > On 2011/6/20 Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > >> > >> netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. > >> > >> - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used > >> by

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
On 2011/6/20 Loui Chang wrote: > On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: >> >> netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. >> >> - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used >> by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > > netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. > > - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used > by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless > interface you want to use (also pos

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
On 2011/6/19 Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > Hello, > > netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. Due to a small bug in net-auto-wireless, the version is now 2.6.1. Additionally some basic configuration of tun/tap interfaces is now possible. Rémy.

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > I'd like a minor clarification here... I've never seen a directory called run > on /. Is netcfg expected to create that? No. /run is maintained by mkinitcfg/initscripts/filesystem. It is a tmpfs mounted directory that is guaranteed to be writ

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Sunday, June 19, 2011 04:23:45 PM Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > Hello, > > netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. > > The following features has been added since the last release: > - add support for IPv6 configuration (FS#18699) > - add support for static routes configuration (FS#18

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
On Sun 19 June 2011 at 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > Most importantly: > - netcfg no longer puts no files in /run (dhcpcd still puts files there) > - netcfg only depends on iproute2 and dhcpcd : wpa_supplicant is > optional (required for wireless), wpa_actiond, ifplugd are required > for ne

[arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
Hello, netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. The following features has been added since the last release: - add support for IPv6 configuration (FS#18699) - add support for static routes configuration (FS#18700) - add support for creating tun/tap interfaces (FS#15049) - add config

[arch-general] [netcfg] Getting rid of wireless_tools

2011-06-19 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
Hello, wpa_supplicant is supposed to provide most of the wireless_tools functionality. I have set up a branch of netcfg that replaces all uses of wireless_tools by wpa_supplicant. http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/netcfg.git/log/?h=no-iwconfig iwconfig is still used by the deprecated IWCO

[arch-general] [netcfg] Prerelease package before 2.6 release

2011-06-12 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
Hello, I have uploaded a premilinary netcfg package including the latest changes. It does not correspond to a particular tag in the Git repository (it's commit 1f5183b8). http://dev.archlinux.org/~remy/netcfg/netcfg-2.5.90-1-any.pkg.tar.xz I plan to produce version 2.6 after some polishing has b

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg status

2011-05-16 Thread Stan
> We had some applications for a netcfg maintainer almost two months ago. > However, nobody actually felt responsible to taking care of them, so the > process sort of fell asleep. > > I will see how we can restart the process again, sending follow-up > questions to the applicants and such. > I t

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg status

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.05.2011 07:17, schrieb Stan: >> There is also stuff about vlan which is very useful. netcfg lack of >> maintainer. >> >> -- >> Sébastien Luttringer >> www.seblu.net > > Can be one. Is that possible for non-trust-user? > We had some applications for a netcfg maintainer almost two months a

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg status

2011-05-15 Thread Stan
> There is also stuff about vlan which is very useful. netcfg lack of > maintainer. > > -- > Sébastien Luttringer > www.seblu.net Can be one. Is that possible for non-trust-user?

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg status

2011-05-15 Thread Seblu
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Stan wrote: > Hi guys. > > Wanna know about netcfg package status. In latest git there is very > important variable - HIDDEN, which allows to connect to hidden networks > without PRE_UP="iwconfig " hack. How soon it'll be > in repos? > There is also stuff about vl

[arch-general] Netcfg status

2011-05-14 Thread Stan
Hi guys. Wanna know about netcfg package status. In latest git there is very important variable - HIDDEN, which allows to connect to hidden networks without PRE_UP="iwconfig " hack. How soon it'll be in repos?

[arch-general] netcfg update & bug fixes

2010-11-20 Thread James Rayner
Hi all, I've fixed most (~14) of the bugs from flyspray for netcfg. I have not implemented any feature requests yet. The code is available here: git://github.com/iphitus/netcfg-updates.git PKGBUILD and package here: http://rayner.id.au/~iphitus/netcfg-git/ I have yet to test many of them, but

Re: [arch-general] netcfg v2.5.2 in [core]

2010-02-18 Thread Jeroen Op 't Eynde
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:33:00 +0100, James Rayner wrote: netcfg v2.5.2 This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. ... Cont

[arch-general] netcfg v2.5.2 in [core]

2010-02-18 Thread James Rayner
netcfg v2.5.2 This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. Move to new auto-wireless/wired The new automatic connection has proper r

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-02-01 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:36 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:37:54AM +1100, James Rayner wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:34 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > > > > > You should try the testi

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-31 Thread fons
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:37:54AM +1100, James Rayner wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:34 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > > > You should try the testing version of netcfg instead: > > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-30 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:34 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > You should try the testing version of netcfg instead: > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/any/netcfg-2.5.0rc2-1-any.pkg.tar.gz > > Will this allow to

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-30 Thread fons
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > You should try the testing version of netcfg instead: > http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/any/netcfg-2.5.0rc2-1-any.pkg.tar.gz Will this allow to specify additional routes (apart from GATEWAY) as well ? It's one thing

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-30 Thread Jim Pryor
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 01:23:25PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Thanks, it does seem to work (just one try so far). I've seen the netcfg > testing thread in the forums, is that the authoritative place to go for > info on this latest version, since the wiki doesn't seem updated for it > yet (which of c

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-29 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 17:00 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 29.01.2010 02:42, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee: > > Hi all, I'm using netcfg and recently have been noticing the following. > > > > When I resume from suspend I call 'netcfg home' which tries to connect > > to my home's wifi network. ESSID and WEP

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.01.2010 02:42, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee: > Hi all, I'm using netcfg and recently have been noticing the following. > > When I resume from suspend I call 'netcfg home' which tries to connect > to my home's wifi network. ESSID and WEP key are correctly set. It > exist with a 'could not obtain IP addr

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-29 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:36 -0500, Alexander Lam wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > Hi all, I'm using netcfg and recently have been noticing the following. > > > > When I resume from suspend I call 'netcfg home' which tries to connect > > to my home's wifi network. ESSI

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-29 Thread Alexander Lam
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Hi all, I'm using netcfg and recently have been noticing the following. > > When I resume from suspend I call 'netcfg home' which tries to connect > to my home's wifi network. ESSID and WEP key are correctly set. It > exist with a 'could not obta

[arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-28 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
Hi all, I'm using netcfg and recently have been noticing the following. When I resume from suspend I call 'netcfg home' which tries to connect to my home's wifi network. ESSID and WEP key are correctly set. It exist with a 'could not obtain IP address error, this is the dmesg:- Registered led dev

Re: [arch-general] netcfg v2.5 in [testing] - a uto wireless configuration has changed

2009-11-15 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Sonntag 15 November 2009 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > James Rayner schrieb: > > 1. pacman -S core/wpa_actiond > > Still testing/wpa_actiond. > > > > > About wireless: I don't think the rfkill stuff will work like that. You > can specify RFKILL_NAME, but that might change over time (it may chan

Re: [arch-general] netcfg v2.5 in [testing] - auto wireless configuration has changed

2009-11-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
James Rayner schrieb: 1. pacman -S core/wpa_actiond Still testing/wpa_actiond. About wireless: I don't think the rfkill stuff will work like that. You can specify RFKILL_NAME, but that might change over time (it may change everytime you unload/load the wireless module and is not guarantee

[arch-general] netcfg v2.5 in [testing] - auto wireless configuration has changed

2009-11-14 Thread James Rayner
netcfg v2.5rc1 This is easily the biggest release since 2.0. Many new features and some significant changes under the hood. There are also a few features which have had changed options and this needs to be noted. The most notable is that net-auto has been removed in favour of the net auto wireless

Re: [arch-general] netcfg

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
f...@kokkinizita.net schrieb: The one remaining problem is with netcfg 2.2.1. On my laptop I have the drivers e1000 and ipw2200 loaded in rc.conf, providing the devices eth0 and eth1 in fixed order. It's not guaranteed to provide a fixed order any more, you should really look into udev rules o

[arch-general] netcfg

2009-10-29 Thread fons
Hello all, I'm a new user of ArchLinux, so far installed on two machines (more wil follow). Coming from first Suse and then Fedora it was a big change, but I learned a lot in the process and have the nice feeling to be back in control of my machines (they also lost some weight). The one remainin

Re: [arch-general] netcfg SCAN patch

2009-05-18 Thread Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto
You're welcome On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > thanks, pushed. > http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=netcfg.git;a=commitdiff;h=40ba706d25128781dc0f4a54303e056abf5d1c3c > > On 18/05/2009, Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto wrote: >> Hi, >> >> a typing error on src/connections/wi

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