I also spotted the problem with the webpage mentioning Gentoo, just forgot to send an e-mail about it. While there is not currently an ebuild in portage for it, I have an ebuild for it, and dbus-cvs(which is required), available in my overlay at https://www.confucius.ca/gentoo/overlay. As for udev running the init scripts, that I have not seen. I do not yet use NM full time, and forget if the gentoo init script does it, but ideally it will 'provide net', and the rest of the net.X scripts should be removed from the run time. Currently, this is not a nice as we'd like, since 'provide net' implies an active connection, which NM does not gurantee. This will require closer integration with the Gentoo init system, and is probably not yet possible in it's current state. As for things running smoothly, I'm going to presume you are using this on a laptop, and therefore not running too many network dependant scripts. If you are, they are propably not server based, unless for local testing(which would bind on lo anyways), so you should not have a problem. If you find any services that fail to start after NM because of a lack of a network, let us know. When a device is plugged in, HAL will recognize it, and send the appropriate dbus signals, which NM picks up, so the device is then added to NM's list. Also, please note that for the Gentoo backend, only dhcp device will work. If you use a static address for a card, consider setting it to use dhcp for now. Hopefully the code for static support will be working shortly. Finally, the ebuild builds from Gnome anoncvs, which is delayed up to a day behind developper cvs, sp the 0.3.1 tag is probably not yet available. In the interim, I may try to grab tarballs, and use non-cvs builds. Robert On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 17:24 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:29 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote: > > NetworkManager 0.3.1 has been released. > > > > WHAT'S NEW: > > =========== > > > > Everything! > > > > This is the first public release of NetworkManager. It is still early > > in the development stage but is usable. There are versions for Debian, > > Fedora, Gentoo and Slackware. It should be easy to port it to any > > desktop that runs HAL. > > > > This does not appear to be in Gentoo as of this time, dispite the web > page claiming it is. This makes it more difficult to try out, so I'll > ask some questions first. > > On Gentoo, udev will run the net.foo start script when interface foo > appears. Does NetworkManager stop this? How does NetworkManager deal > with the network changing out from under it, because I > plugged/enabled/modprobed my wireless card? Should I tell Udev not to > run those scripts, and not run them at startup? What about startup > scripts with net dependancies? > > In otherwords, how does this interact with the rest of my Gentoo system > to keep the whole thing running smoothly? > > (Obviously, all these questions apply to Redhat, Debian, etc.) > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >
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