On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 01:24:01PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I also wonder about migrating my main laptop. I think I first will give > myself some time to have experiences with the server VMs, before > attempting to do anything with the laptop. There is a huger complexity > involved for migrating a laptop with a ton of applications and usage > scenarios. > > > Especially I wonder about network without Network Manager, but on a > Plasma desktop – no, I won´t switch to something else. I have the > following scenarios for the laptop:
I'm using a package called "wicd" on ascii. It identifies itself as "Wicd Network Manager" when I activate its window. I seem to have trouble getting it to recognise a wired ethernet connection when a wifi one is available but unreliable. That may just be a configuraton issue I haven't worried about yet. -- hendrik > > - Cable based network with DHCP, but at one place with 801.x. > > - Different, mostly WPA2 based, WLAN > > - OpenVPN connection for employer network access > > I meanwhile – after a long time of installing and purging Network > Manager out of frustration – use Network Manager for all of this. > > How would this play out with Devuan ASCII? Or well Ceres, as I am > currently using Debian GNU/Linux Sid on that machine. For OpenVPN I bet > I would be fine using a text based configuration file + some script to > set up some routes again. But the other stuff should work with some kind > of GUI that is working with Plasma desktop. I bet I may be out of luck > with that. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
