Gentoo networking is a bit on the wild side - it doesnt seem to work nicely with third party tools without a lot of work.
My fix was to manually configure each location (and a couple of general ones such as wifi hotspot, and basic wired dhcp) as I came across them and copy the resulting config files to separate directories. Then when I need to return to a location I just copy the matching set of files back and restart services. Allows a "profile" based approach based on site - some need different screen resolutions, apache or bind running, external projector, firewall settings for VoIP or not and so on - all able to be scripted. Very flexible as I control it with a shell script linked to a gtkdialog for site selection one click to open dialog, second click selects site. I have decided not to automate site selection (such as netwwork detection on cable plugin) as I wanted control :) So my reccomendation is forget networkmanager (particularly that heap of !#$#%$@) and the like and roll your own. BillK On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:37 -0600, Darren Kirby wrote: > Hello all, > > Getting very frustrated here. Trying to put the finishing touches on a > new laptop install. I have verified using the CLI that both wired and > wireless networking works fine when I configure manually. As with most > laptops, I would imagine, I will be switching locations often, and > switching between several different networks both wired and wireless. > I thought the thing to do would be to install a slick gui to take care > of this. To that end I installed NetworkManager, and KNetworkManager > as a front-end as I use a KDE desktop. As far as I can tell Network > Manager is working fine, I followed the instructions for setup from > the wiki here[0] and here[1], and it does seem to setup a wired > connection on eth0 just fine. However, I am getting an error upon > trying to start Knetworkmanager: > > " KNetworkManager can not start because the installation is misconfigured. > System DBUS policy does not allow it to provide user settings. > contact your system administrator or distribution. > KNetworkManager will not start automatically in future." > > Not sure why, as per the wiki I added: > > <policy group="plugdev"> > <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> > > <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" > send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> > </policy> > > to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf, and added my user to > plugdev group. Is there something else I'm missing? I'm unsure how to > further troubleshoot. I also tried the NetworkManager plasmoid for > kde, but that is just bombing with a bunch off error messages I can't > read in the 'connections' window. > > I am wondering if I should just uninstall KNetworkManager, and try > nm-applet? Will that even work on a KDE desktop? Will it require > installing boatloads of gnome crap I don't want? Should I chuck the > whole works and use Wicd? > > At this point I'd be happy with pretty much any solution that just > works, I've wasted the better half of the day on this and I'm starting > to think I should just stick to using the CLI...this frustration just > isn't worth it. > > Do any of you folks out there have an easy, simple solution to > configuring wireless that you like? I'm open to any ideas. > > [0] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/NetworkManager > [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KNetworkManager > -- > Support the mob or mysteriously disappear... > I'm on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/badcomputer/ >
