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Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

b.n.

2008-05-03

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Daniel da Veiga ha scritto:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. <brullonulla@(protected):
>> Daniel da Veiga ha scritto:
>>
>>> Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and
>> wpa_supplicant.
>>  You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to
>> NetworkManager, then...
>>
>
> You can say so, but WICD and NetworkManager are completely different
> programs, they both call wpa_supplicant, but in completely different
> ways, as far as I can see. NM tries to use DBUS to talk to supplicant,
> while WICD launches supplicant directly, by pointing it to a generated
> config file.
>
> But yes, I suppose NM is broken in the sense it can't talk to
> wpa_supplicant on my laptop.

I know almost nothing about dbus, but have you checked that dbus works
for other programs?

m.


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