Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > After using wicd for a long time, due to not being able to get NetworkManager > to function on lfs a while back, I decided to give NM another chance on a > systemd and KDE system. > > First, if not building with iptables, a --without-iptables switch is needed to > successfully configure the package. This should be added to the blfs command > explanations. Also, --with-session-tracking=systemd is needed if using > loginctl instead of consolekit for session tracking. > > You might also want to use the --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system > switch. I think three different locations (/etc/systemd/system, > /lib/systemd/system and /usr/lib/systemd/system) for service files is too > much to keep track of, so I tend to install them in /lib instead of /usr/lib. > > I found that to get NM working I needed to install a wpa_supplicant.service > file for systemd. This file is not installed by the current blfs > wpa_supplicant instructions, but the file can be found in the > wpa_supplicant/systemd folder. This should be added to blfs. > > After this, all I needed was to install the networkmanagement package for kde > to get a nice gui and NM can manage my network connections automatically. > > I will make the mentioned modifications to blfs, if nobody objects...
If there are special commands needed for systemd, perhaps those need to be in a special section or a separate note. I'd prefer to not try to merge commands for both the classic system with systemd systems. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
