Apparently, though unproven, at 23:34 on Sunday 12 December 2010, Valmor de Almeida did opine thusly:
> On 12/12/2010 03:54 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:51 on Sunday 12 December 2010, Valmor > > de > > > > Almeida did opine thusly: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I would like to have net.wlan0 started only when the wireless card is > >> switched on. I am using ifplugd for starting net.eth0 when an ethernet > >> cable is plugged in. Is there a similar utility for net.wlan0? Ideally > >> so that it is configurable in conjunction with ifplugd. > > > > Chuck all that net.* bullshit out the window and use wicd instead. > > Okay I am new to this wireless stuff. If I do > > -> emerge -vp wicd > > I get > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N ] net-wireless/wireless-tools-29 USE="nls -multicall" 0 kB > [ebuild N ] dev-python/dbus-python-0.83.0-r1 USE="-doc -examples > -test" 483 kB > [ebuild N ] dev-python/urwid-0.9.9.1 USE="-examples" 233 kB > [ebuild N ] x11-misc/ktsuss-1.4 273 kB > [ebuild N ] net-misc/wicd-1.7.0 USE="X gtk ncurses nls pm-utils > (-ioctl) -libnotify" 402 kB > > Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 1,390 kB > > which will install wireless-tools. This does not mean I need to use it > to configure my wireless net right? You are going to take the entirety of net.* except net.lo as installed by baselayout/openrc/whatever and get rid of it. That stuff never worked right for anything except servers with fixed IPs > I am asking this because I am using > wpa_supplicant and in the /etc/conf.d/net config file, I can only use > one or the other. Discard /etc/conf.d/net That's part of the thing you are getting rid of > > Since wicd deals with both wired and wireless, should I also get rid of > ifplugd? Yes. Just following the wicd docs and it will all work just fine -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
