On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700 >> Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> >>> On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >>> [-- snip --] >>> >>> > Speaking as someone experienced in running Gentoo but certainly not >>> > a power user - I don't write scripts or program at all - I gotta >>> > say I don't like that way this is all working on my system so far. >>> > TO BE CLEAR, I am SURE that I don't have everything configured as >>> > well as it could possibly be, but I also suspect that would be true >>> > for the majority of new wireless users on Gentoo after only a day >>> > or two. >>> > >> >> Just to throw a small spanner in the works.... >> >> All my wpa issues were solved long ago by dumping the gentoo net >> scripts, then installing and running wicd where it all JustWorks(TM). >> >> init.d scripts work great for static servers. >> wicd works great for mobile laptops. >> There's very little overlap between these two. >> >> Have you considered using wicd at all? >> > > Alan, > I haven't seriously considered wicd because I don't understand what > it is, how it links into everything else on the system. > > For a user type the idea of dumping init scripts in favor of > something else is a _really_ foreign idea to me. As someone who has > used Gentoo for at least a decade please understand that I've never > done _anything_ like that before. I'm sure I can figure out more or > less how the scripts work, but there are other things I'd worry about > like some some system update deleting them, etc. > > Reading the wicd homepage it looks like it could help, but how many > hours am I going to have to invest to get it running? Understand that > I've already dumped maybe 10 hours into getting here. I figure I'll > need another 10 hours of work - reading web pages, trying things out > and failing - before I feel like I should ask a question here, so > that's 20 hours minimum. Please understand that wireless was working > on this machine in Windows in under 10 minutes - not 20 hours! > > The wicd homepage makes it all look so painless so I guess I should > go give it a try.
Do your reading and such, but don't forget IRC exists. :) -- :wq
