On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:09:04 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I've got hal and dbus masked out (pam too), so wicd and networkmanager
> are out of the question.
Wicd doesn't need hal, but dbus is so useful you are crippling your system
by blocking it. On a multitasking system, programs need a way of
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 04:03:08PM +0100, Mick wrote
> For PCs you don't typically need anything more than the default Gentoo
> scripts, but for a laptop wicd, networkmanager and the like will do
> exactly what you need with no perceptible overhead and the benefit of
> notifications for when thing
On 13 Apr 2010, at 12:39, Walter Dnes wrote:
... I plan to have multiple config files, to cover different
situations.
You can have multiple networks specified in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
and in /etc/conf.d/net.
I think you can just specify the various SSIDs / credentials in
wpa_supplican
On 13 April 2010 15:44, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:13, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:39:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks. that keeps things sane. Now let's start with simple stuff
>> > first, manually connecting to an open access point at
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:13, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:39:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > Thanks. that keeps things sane. Now let's start with simple stuff
> > first, manually connecting to an open access point at the public
> > library. Listed below are files /etc/co
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:39:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Thanks. that keeps things sane. Now let's start with simple stuff
> first, manually connecting to an open access point at the public
> library. Listed below are files /etc/conf.d/net, ~/bin/wi_open, and
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.open.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:17:07PM +0100, Mick wrote
> You probably want to look at wpa_supplicant (in particular man
> wpa_gui), or any other network manager type of application would do
> (wicd, network manager, wifi-radar) which allows you to enable/disable
> access points for automatic connect
On 12 April 2010 08:11, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Here's /etc/conf.d/net on my Gentoo netbook system...
>
> config_eth0="192.168.123.249 broadcast 192.168.123.255 netmask
> 255.255.255.248 mtu 1452"
> routes_eth0=(
> "default via 192.168.123.254 metric 2"
> "192.168.123.248/29 via 192.168.123.254 metr
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