Re: NM 0.7 svn on Gentoo

[Michael Biebl <biebl debian org>]

Rod Keenan wrote:
> I'm attempting to get NM 0.7 working on an older Dell
> laptop. I've 
> successfully installed an earlier version of NM before
> on a different 
> laptop, but this is my first attempt at this version
> with this kernel.
>
> On eth0 it seems that dhcp isn't working since ping
> returns unknown host 
> and /etc/resolv.conf isn't getting populated. (Or
> isn't that used 
> anymore?) The hardware seems to be probed and
> configured correctly with 
> the right drivers and firmware but the knetworkmanager
> applet shows: No 
> network device found.

knetworkmanager-0.2.* doesn't work with NM 0.7.

You should use nm-applet (GNOME).

There is an updated version of k-n-m [1] though which requires 
dbus-1-qt3 [2]. It's still missing some functionality, but upstreams are 
working on it.

Cheers,
Michael




[1] 
svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/knetworkmanager/knetworkmanager-0.7
[2] svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/dbus-qt4-qt3backport
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