NetworkManager, netapplet, and ipw2200

[frozenJim]

I will write up my experience in the gentoo-wiki sometime in the near future. Uber has guided me to the "PERFECT NETWORK CONNECTION STRATEGY" using arping. There is no gui yet, but hey, who needs it!?

currently, I just turn on my laptop and it automatically decides which network I am on and then either assigns me the correct static IP along with all gateway, dns and route info, or it uses arping to assign me the "next" available static IP, or it uses DHCP - all depending on where I am. Truly awsome.

Give me a few days and then I'll post back a link to the wiki entry.
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[hondaman]

So, after reading through this thread, ive come to the following conclusions:

networkmanager isnt exactly supported in gentoo
there are no other gui alternatives for wireless + _wpa_ + static ip address

Is this correct?

Ive used networkmanager under Fedora for a long time and its great. But I wouldnt mind something else (gui) that supports wpa. Any help?

Oh, and I dont at all understand how to install networkmanager from gentopia. I couldnt find any instructions. The instructions I tried said:
"hondalap1 local # svn co https://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org/svn/overlay/ gentopia
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/overlay'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/overlay': SSL negotiation failed: SSL disabled due to library version mismatch (https://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org)"

but even after that, I wouldnt know how to proceed.

[benkong2]

err.. actually what the gentopia instructions say is to:
Gamin ¶

* The Gentopia project recommends gamin, provided by the Gnome project, over the fam daemon. Gamin recommends implementing the Inotify interface in your kernel under filesystems.

Getting the Overlay ¶

* make sure you have subversion installed, if not emerge subversion
* # cd /usr/local/[/u]
* # svn co https://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org/svn/overlay/ gentopia
* edit /etc/make.conf
* set PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/gentopia"
* If you already have an overlay then do this
* PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/gentopia"

I did this and it just worked with a few minor tweaks that are listed here:
https://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org/wiki/NetworkManager