Comments on: Gentopia coming true: Gentoo featuring KNetworkManager

By: oclenj

oclenj — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:50:53 +0000

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By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:22:13 +0000

@Thorben, I have the same problem i can’t get ip directly but i have to do dhclient eth1, can you tell me the right version of knetworkmanager please and if you can give the ebuild?
Thank a lot
Cheers
Riccardo

By: Thorben

Thorben — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:57:37 +0000

I’ve now installed the svn version of KNetworkManager and now I get WPA to auto connect on startup. I asked on the networkmanager-list, and there was a fix in kde’s svn a few days ago for this. I’m now using the svn ebuild from the xeffects overlay…

By: cruzki

cruzki — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:07:33 +0000

I try to use knetworkmanager, but I think I have the same problems as Thorben. kwifimanager said I am conected but I can’t ping my router (and ifconfig said that wlan0 has ip but wmaster0 don’t).

Also, Netkwork manager delete my resolv.conf at every restart!!!!

On a side note, for some unknown reason net.wlan0 and net.eth0 are up and configured although I setup to don’t start using eselect!!!! (and there aren’t any symlink in /etc/runlevel).

By: rbu

rbu — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:24:12 +0000

Thorben, I can imagine NetworkManager does not take over an existing wpa-supplicant connection, so you should decide to have it manage all services or use pure Gentoo management for it.
You do not need to remove any configuration files, it should be sufficient to disable autostarting of network.
I’ll follow up any other open questions on the list.

By: rbu

rbu — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:39:09 +0000

cruzki, technically you can install it without installing PPP, but you cannot remove those parts from the GUI yet. That’s why I’m uncomfortable with making that dependancy conditional. I’ll see what we can do about making it optional at compile time.
You can just put kde-bas/kppp to your package.provided.

By: Thorben

Thorben — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:25:47 +0000

Hello,
First, let me say a huge thanks for bringing this into portage

KNetworkManager didn’t autostart for me, even though the option in the gui is checked, so I had to manually add the .desktop file to .kde/Autostart. No big deal.

But there is one problem: It doesn’t connect automatically to my WLAN on startup of the system / of kde, even though I have selected plain text storage, the WLAN is listed as a trusted network and I have no ethernet cable plugged in. Should’t KNetworkManager connect to my WLAN under these circumstances?

I have followed the advice on gentoo-wiki.com and used
RC_PLUG_SERVICES=”!net.*”
as well as deleted /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Is this the best way to do it? Or can I have a default configuration in wpa_supplicant.conf, so I get connected to my WLAN, but still enjoy KNetworkManger?

Thanks for listening
Thorben

By: cruzki

cruzki — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:11:56 +0000

Only one things, we it’s NECESARY install ppp and kppp if my laptop even have a instaled modem? It’s desactivated in the kernel. I think that that must be configure wuth a use flag

By: Lobotomia

Lobotomia — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:04:58 +0000

good works!
tnx!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:48:01 +0000

W00T!

Hell yeah.

By: Elias P.

Elias P. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:31:45 +0000

Yeeehaw, finally!
I was waiting for this since months, using some old broken buggy ebuilds since then.
Thank you!

Will emerge && test && report bugs.

Regards, Elias P.