NetworkManager, netapplet, and ipw2200

jamesshuang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 120

Ok, so I tried the new ebuilds, and it doesn't help. Here's a completely log again:

steevdave · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:56 am Post subject:

Gnome-volume-manager problem - I have been banging my head about this for 4 days, before finally figuring out, the problem is with the configure script. You can either write a patch, or attempt to use the one in my overlay for 1.3.3_pre2005 whatever and apply it against gnome-volume-manager 1.3.2 - 1.2.2 does not work well with the latest dbus/hal. You will need to recompile any programs that depend on dbus or hal whenever you recompile them - IF you are upgrading. If it is a recompile, 9 times out of 10 you won't have to.

I have updated my dhcp ebuild in the overlay, it *should* work with the network manager. I have also added bind and bind-tools to my overlay, as there is a dbus patch for them, HOWEVER, NetworkManager doesn't take advantage of the dbus support of named yet.

Please try my new dhcp ebuild, it has a few patches added to it, and I was able to connect with NetworkManager last night at the coffee shop via my crappy Netgear MA101 usb wifi card, so it DOES work. Or at least, it did once.

gnome-volume-manager, well, the jury is still out on it.

jamesshuang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 120

Thank you very much for the help steev! It seems that NetworkManager is working properly right now... Plugging in the connection (wired) at work makes it autodetect, and fetch the IP properly. DNS works properly as well. All is going well... Now all I have to do is try it at home with the wireless. I will let you know if that works properly!

I tried the gentopia ebuild for gnome-volume-manager and it seems to work! however, I'm having trouble emerging pmount, which seems to be necessary for gnome-volume-manager to work. Apparently, nscd is blocking the correct creations of new users, which is one of the operations in emerge pmount. What is nscd for anyways? In any case, when I kill nscd, the emerge works. Gnome volume manager works fine until a certain point though- when I plug in my USB key, it fails to mount with this message:

jamesshuang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 120

Ok, so I finally got home and tried it with wireless. The connection and fetching works! BUT- I have to kill nscd for firefox to register anything at all... Any way to make nscd not run? because it seems to be causing more trouble than it's helping with...

Gnome-volume-manager still fails, not sure why... but I'll keep prodding it...

steevdave · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject:

About the NSCD thing, yes it would be possible, I am still trying to get my patches applied upstream, because its a pain to apply 3 patches because they haven't applied them yet for whatever reason. I just sent a new one upstream again. I know of the problem with gnome-volume-manager as well, what is happening is that pmount-hal is getting passed the %d option instead of %h - I will be updating my overlay again here in a minute, which should fix that, I also removed the 1.3.3_pre ebuild for now, so the 1.3.2-r1 in my overlay *should* work, I am thinking of downgrading my hal to 0.5.2 until I can figure out what is going on with hal > 0.5.2

jamesshuang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 120

Hmm... it seems that the ubuntu patches aren't sitting well with this package... The configure script is looking for libgnomeui-2.0 dbus-glib-1 >= 0.31 hal >= 0.5.0 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0 libgksuui1.0 >= 1.0.0. Definitely not emerging...

steevdave · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:46 am Post subject:

Which of those don't you have? It might be easier if you message me about what you have via private message in the forums rather than in this thread as its rather Off Topic of NetworkManager - I am still working on it.

j0shwalk3r · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Hampton, VA

Just wanted to drop a quick note to thank steev and everyone else in this thread. I've been working through the same thing and am now typing this over wifi controlled by NetworkManager.

Hope I can help with any questions, now that I got something working.

rel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 137

Can't get it to work. Using steev's version.

BigBaaadBob · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject:

Is there a working ebuild for this now? Does it require extreme unmasking of dependencies?

sog · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 356

AFAIK there is not, and when i unmasked the dbus and hal necessary to get NetworkManager working, it broke Tomboy. if you're worried about dependencies, i'd hold off for just a bit.
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rel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 137

hgomersall · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject:

I now have a working installation of NetworkManager using the ebuild from gentopia. It works like a dream. I can move from home wired to home wireless to internet caf with no trouble.

Initially, the hal and dbus upgrade seemed to break nautilus (gvm seemed to be working fine, but nautilus didn't display the mount), but upgrading to gnome 2.12 has solved everything.

Steadily, everything is coming together. My desktop is pretty much functionally perfect now.

I needed to unmask a few things, but so far it hasn't broken anything. Its certainly worth the possible instability for the awesome functionality.

This is ipw2200 with a Dell Inspiron 8100.

GaMMa · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 684 Location: USA

j0shwalk3r · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Hampton, VA

I've got NetworkManager working almost completely. The only remaining problem I still have is that /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting set to 600 permissions. My umask is 022. I've seen this problem elsewhere, but so far haven't seen a solution to it. If anyone can help out, I would greatly appreciate.

GaMMa · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 684 Location: USA

Do I just run NetworkManager as root and everything should work? Nothing happens when I do..
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hgomersall · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject:

GaMMa · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 684 Location: USA

Ahh thanks! I've got 2 problems right now. Trying to execute nm-applet as a user I get this error:

** (nm-applet:2560): WARNING **: <WARNING> (): nmwa_dbus_init() could not acquire its service. dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.5" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the configuration file'

I can run it as root, but it doesn't seem to use dhcp but manually tries connecting to the network, which makes the connection not work. I tried the dhclient-script thing, but no luck. Any ideas?
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GaMMa · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 684 Location: USA

Anyone know how to solve my problem? I don't know why dhcp doesn't want to work correctly. Kind of OT: I just got swsusp2 working (with nvidia) which is exciting

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GaMMa · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 684 Location: USA

UPDATE: Got things working for root. As user when trying to run nm-applet I get the error ** (nm-applet:13467): WARNING **: <WARNING> (): nmwa_dbus_init() could not acquire its service. dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.6" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the configuration file'

I can modify the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf file to get rid of the error messages, but then it says network not found when nm-applet is run as user. Running as root works fine though however after the change. Help?
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omné · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:12 am Post subject:

Maybe can you play with the other files in system.d ?
The dhcdbd.conf and NetworkManager.conf for exemple.
For me only root can run nm-applet too.

My problem is with the WEP key.
Using wifi-radar, I set the key in hexa like this : xx:yy:zz:aa:bb and it works.
But in NetworkManager, nothing works, I tried with and without the ":" in the Hexa or with the 26 character key in passkey but nothing works.
Any idear will be cool.

Omné.

GaMMa · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 684 Location: USA

Wahoo got it working! Here's my config/mini howto:

Move /etc/dhcp/dhclient-script.sample to /sbin and chmod +x it.

Add the following in /etc/dbus-1/system.d:

NetworkManager.conf
<policy user="YOUR USERNAME HERE">
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
</policy>

nm-applet.conf
<policy user="YOUR USERNAME HERE">
<allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/>

<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"/>
</policy>

There's some kind of issue with dbus or something I believe. The console line should make nm-applet work, but it's not picking up on it. Not sure if it's got something to do with the pam_console USE flag in pam, or what, but I tried adding it there and no luck, so whatever. This way works

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sog · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 356

anybody know why i can't get NetworkManager installed?

compile error is:

sog · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 356

[SOLVED]

ok, so i couldn't get networkmanager-0.5.2_pre20060221 installed because of the error above, but i was able to get 0.51 deployed (with an emerge -a =networkmanager-0.51-r1). i've also modified the NetworkManager.conf & nm-applet.conf files as recommended, added NetworkManager to my default runlevel, and added my user to the newly created dhcp group. i didn't have to move dhclient.script b/c that was already present.

after adding nm-applet to my startup programs, however, i get an error saying that nm-applet cannot find some necessary resources and can't continue. the command line output is below - any ideas?

dashnu · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Casco Maine

Few questions. I have this working for my wired card. However when I set up a new wireless connection I do not see WPA-PSK for an option. Am I missing something? Also do I need to keep my net.eth* in my default run level or does NetworkManager handle it all now?

My card is supported. I think I have the latest and greatest ebuilds. I used these ebuilds & patches.

http://gentoo.zugaina.org/gentopia/net-misc.html.en

Any ideas?

TIA

*edit

Also I can not build networkmanager-vpnc probably because I run a ppc chip. But anyways the error.