On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:21 +1200, Gustav van der Merwe wrote: > NM seems like a really cool tool, but I can't find instructions anywhere > on getting it up and working for gentoo. > A bit of googling around shows that there was interest at one point > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-August/msg00132.html > and that it actually kind of worked. > I can't find anything recent showing that there has been work towards > supporting gentoo, or getting a gentoo ebuild out there and this is a > shame. > I would like it if gentoo had the same kind of powerful network tools as > other distributions. > > Is there any reason that gentoo does not have NM in portage? > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
One of the major blockers of getting it into portage was the patches required to DHCP - those are actually applied now (and even in STABLE dhcp!) Now, I am waiting on the end of SoC before I move it from the Gentopia overlay into Portage. http://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org is where the info for our overlay resides. The support is top notch, I have been using it for quite a while, I actually can't recall exactly when I used the old baselayout ways. The SoC project is coming along nicely, and I may wait until 7.0 before putting it into Portage simply because of the support for a lot of things that it will (hopefully) have, that I know a lot of users will be wanting (and it will help keep the bug count down quite a bit.) Give it a try, and let me know how it works out for you - we hang out on Freenode, in #gentopia, but I can also be found in #gentoo-laptop, #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-desktop, and various other channels (the username on freenode is "steev" - because I am oh-so-original) Good luck, we haven't had many failure reports in a while, even have people who use -vpnc and -openvpn successfully. Hope this was helpful, Steev Klimaszewski Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org Gentopia Project http://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
