Re: NetworkManager on Gentoo

[Adam Ashley <adam_ashley softhome net>]

Or if you use the breakmygentoo.net overlays, they have ebuilds for the
0.3.1 release that work perfectly.

Adam

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 13:37 -0500, Robert Paskowitz wrote:
> So long as in /etc/conf.d/net your device is configured to use dhcp, it
> should work.
> 
> You can try following this rough guide to get it going.
> 
> Create a portage overlay: /usr/local/portage
> Set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in /etc/make.conf
> 
> Go to https://www.confucius.ca/gentoo/overlay
> and get the ebuilds:
> 
> sys-apps/dbus-cvs/dbus-cvs-0.22.ebuild
> sys-apps/hal/hal-0.4.1.ebuild
> net-misc/NetworkManager-cvs/NetworkManager-cvs-0.02.ebuild
> 
> Then run: emerge -C dbus && emerge --digest dbus-cvs hal
> NetworkManager-cvs
> 
> Following those instructions, you should get a proper environement in
> which NetworkManager can run. Not having dbus-cvs can cause a serious
> problem, and that's what most of the work above is for.
> 
> Once it's all installed, run /etc/init.d/hald restart. Then you should
> be able to run NetworkManager and NetworkManagerInfo. For now, I run
> them manually in consoles without detaching to I can see what's going
> on. Should be fine to run the NetworkManager init.d script, and then
> NetworkManagerInfo in your gnome session.
> 
> 
> If you have any specific problems, let us/me know. When NetworkManager
> first came out, there was no support for Gentoo, so trying now may give
> better results.
> 
> Robert
> 
> On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 13:08 -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 22:18 -0500, Robert Paskowitz wrote:
> > > I'm not too sure if there are many people using Gentoo on this list, but
> > > I've seen considerable interest, so I hope at least a few are here. Of
> > > course, hopefully anyone will be able to weigh in on this.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > I'm a gentoo user, but except for a brief attempt when NM was first
> > announced, that failed miserably, I'm mostly just waiting for someone to
> > get NM working on Gentoo.
> > 
> > I'd be highly in favor of anything that made NM easier to make work
> > correctly.
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
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