Re: NM support for Gentoo

[Andy Botting <andy andybotting com>]

Gustav,

The Gentopia overlay has an ebuild for NetworkManager (and even
BreakMyGentoo also maybe). If you haven't used alternative overlays in
Gentoo before, have a look at the gentoo docs for it, or even try
emerging the latest 'layman' package.

I have been using NetworkManager 0.6.2 for a while on my powerbook (with
a madwifi card) and it's been very reliable.

cheers,

Andy

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?
> 
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