NetworkManager wiki request + help: wireless not ready

bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 171

There exist numerous links to a gento wiki (even in these forums) for NetworkManager setup and no wiki exists!

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-710273-highlight-networkmanager+broadcom.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-667421-highlight-networkmanager+broadcom.html

I have a general problem as well. My iwconfig sees a wireless device, and my device works fine with a my WEP router at home (at least before I installed this stuff, using the minimal settings in /etc/conf.d/net)

Getting my laptop to work at numerous locations easily however seemed smart to try NetworkManager.

In general I removed net.eth* from default.
Installed NetworkManager from ~arch (yes I know ~, but I needed VPN!)
needed to add to package.keywords

DawgG · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 491

jsrlepage · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 98

That's not the problem.

In my case, I can use a mix of wpa_supplicant and dhclient to connect to my wireless network, but NetworkManager's applet categorically refuses to do anything.
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bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 171

Yes i am sorta confused how NetworkManager is configured. Using the init-script net.eth1 for me the power light on my laptop wont even turn on if the script is running. So disabling it of course created a problem for NetworkManager to figure out how to use the driver or whatever to turn it on. I am indeed online when I restart the init-script which configures the wireless based on only 2 lines in /etc/conf.d/net

modules=( "iwconfig" )
essid_eth1="xxxx"
key_bunghole="xxxxxxxxxx"
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject:

i may be way way wrong here, but i didnt think NetworkManager used the net.* init scripts, nor /etc/conf.d/net, nor does it use wpa_supplicant.conf ?

I'll test again when i get home near the laptop, but I think that's the case.

bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 171

a bump for help
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bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 171

# nano /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

The information does exist in the archive: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_NetworkManager

What I have found, though, is that wireless is somewhat problematic with NetworkManager after the switch over to baselayout2/openrc. Sometimes the wireless works, sometimes it doesn't I am unsure of the problem at this time.

bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 171

I welcome any additional help on the topic.

I've tried the procedure in the wiki without any success, my Device is still not ready.

I will read up on Dbus but I'm unsure if it is correctly handeling the wifi card and or the driver. Are there kernel options I need enabled. Do i have to specify the driver I am using anywhere? to Dbus or to NetworkManager?

--thanks in advance
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Alex_Justes · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 1

Hm... It's seems to be solved.

1) Check that dbus is present in your rc
2) chmod +x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

I also had a problem with the hostname(it's always was localhost), you can solve it by adding hostname=your_hostname in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

djhyland · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 37 Location: Madison WI

Thank you, thank you, thank you Alex_Justes! I've been looking for the solution to this problem for a long time, and making /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper finally did it.