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qiaomuf n00b
Joined: 31 Mar 2010 Posts: 4
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 2:05 pm Post subject: Gentoo NetworkManager Plugin |
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Hi folk,
I've created this project and hope this could make your network management mush easier .
This is a GSoC project. It will let NetworkManager deal with Gentoo network configuration files such as /etc/conf.d/net, /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and /etc/conf.d/hostname.
After making the plugin work properly, It would not only help you manage your wired and wireless network with Gentoo network configuration files, but also monitor changes to configuration files and report them to NetworkManager. You can find more details in the wiki page.
I've already tested nearly all the features and I hope it could work properly in most cases now. You can see the latest news about this project from my blog.
Blog: http://qiaomuf.wordpress.com/
Homepage: http://gitorious.org/gentoo-networkmanager-plugin/
Wiki page: http://gitorious.org/gentoo-networkmanager-plugin/pages/Home
Welcome you to use and test this project and hope you will enjoy it.
If you have suggestions or find bugs, you could submit at bugs.gentoo.org with [networkmanager] or [dagger] prefix.
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gringo Advocate
Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:40 am Post subject: |
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just to say thanks, i dont use nm that much but im sure others will appreciate your job
cheers |
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qiaomuf n00b
Joined: 31 Mar 2010 Posts: 4
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for your support.
I would like to list some interesting features that may attract you guys
1. Monitoring: any change you made to your configuration files could immediately take effect to your system without restarting anything.
2. PPPoE network: PPPoE network is very easy to set up. You just need to add username_ppp0='***' , password_ppp0='***' to /etc/conf.d/net and that's all.
3. Wireless network: wireless network is very easy to setup, you just need to add config_ssid=("dhcp") and add secret information to wpa_supplicant.conf. Further configuration is also supported.
4. Wireless security: the plugin supports as many security methods as it could. Currently it supports LEAP, WEP, WPA/WPA2-PSK, WPA/WPA2-EAP.
5. You can throw away your net.*. NM will provide net for you. (Init scripts will be changed in future)
6. You could create multiple network profiles per network interface and decide which one to use via nm-applet.
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pdfan n00b
Joined: 03 May 2010 Posts: 6
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 11:06 am Post subject: networkmanager need to support interface br0 for kvm |
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bridged interface is needed for kvm but networkmanager does not support br0. so who use kvm has to stop using NM to set up br0 in the network config file. |
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Dagger Retired Dev
Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 765 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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For all the lazy people I've added patched ebuild to my overlay (layman -a dagger). It's called networkmanager-0.8-r100. If you're interested, please test it and let us know your feedback. _________________ 95% of all computer errors occur between chair and keyboard (TM)
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qiaomuf n00b
Joined: 31 Mar 2010 Posts: 4
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 10:43 am Post subject: Re: networkmanager need to support interface br0 for kvm |
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pdfan wrote: | bridged interface is needed for kvm but networkmanager does not support br0. so who use kvm has to stop using NM to set up br0 in the network config file. |
I haven't test it but I think this could be the solution:
Making NetworkManager work together with openrc scripts
Hope this helps |
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Dagger Retired Dev
Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 765 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:51 am Post subject: |
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Updated version with writing support pushed to overlay as 0.8-r101 _________________ 95% of all computer errors occur between chair and keyboard (TM)
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devsk Advocate
Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 2995 Location: Bay Area, CA
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:27 am Post subject: |
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Dumb question: How is this different from the what's in portage (version: net-misc/networkmanager-0.8-r1)? |
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dol-sen Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 2805 Location: Richmond, BC, Canada
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:29 am Post subject: |
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because it is 0.8's codebase with a new gentoo centric plug-in to handle the gentoo networking configuration. _________________ Brian
Porthole, the Portage GUI frontend irc@freenode: #gentoo-guis, #porthole, Blog
layman, gentoolkit, CoreBuilder, esearch... |
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Dagger Retired Dev
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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just pushed another version with more fixes and updates.
you can find more details on Qiao's blog. _________________ 95% of all computer errors occur between chair and keyboard (TM)
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qiaomuf n00b
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Dagger wrote: | just pushed another version with more fixes and updates.
you can find more details on Qiao's blog. |
Great, thank you _________________ Visit My Blog! |
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