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keba
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 Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:05 pm Post subject: kde 4.2 network & powerdevil applet |
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Hi,
I'm doing a fresh install of Gentoo with Kde 4.2 and everything worked fine except I don't have a network or a PowerDevil applet (and I can't find them). Some sources said it was included in kdebase... Where can I find and start them? Thanks
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| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Still no applet, but at least solid support for NetworkManager: to have it compile with the networkmanager use flag, I needed to
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mkdir /etc/portage/profile
echo "-networkmanager" >> /etc/portage/profile/use.mask
echo ">=net-misc/networkmanager-0.7" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
echo ">=sys-auth/policykit" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
emerge --oneshot solid
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Now I do have solid with NetworkManager support, but still no applet to control it or something like that. So my wireless doesn't work because I can't connect to it (I could using iwconfig, ... but I need to be able to easily access different connection points). Do you know how to do that?
I also emerged knetworkconf, but that doesn't even see my network devices (wired and wireless).
I saw that Kubuntu had knetworkmanager, is that the old kde3-knetworkmanager? Also doesn't Opensuse have something like that? Thanks in advance.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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PowerDevil is working! I just didn't realise it was hidden behind the battery applet... 
I got the networkmanager-applet to build, but still no wireless...  At least I got wired networking natively in Kde4 now. When I try to connect to my WPA-PSK network, it asks for the psk-passkey and then does nothing.
This is what I did:
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emerge dev-util/git subversion layman
layman -a kde-testing
echo "source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf" >> /etc/make.conf
layman -S
echo "net-misc/networkmanager dhclient dhcpcd" >> /etc/portage/package.use
#This updates networkmanager with the new use flags, I'm not sure you need these though.
#To get NM-0.7 see the post above.
emerge --oneshot networkmanager
echo "networkmanager-applet -kdeprefix" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "networkmanager-applet **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge --oneshot networkmanager-applet
#And of course this:
etc-update
rc-update add NetworkManager default
rc-update del net.eth0
rc-update del net.eth1
#I'm using OpenRC, make this: rc_hotplug="!net.eth0 !net.eth1" to exclude eth0 and eth1 from boot, NetworkManager will handle them
nano /etc/rc.conf
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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Using | Code: | killall NetworkManager
NetworkManager --no-daemon |
I found out that the applet doesn't even communicate with NetworkManager!!! I don't know what version the ebuild is (it says its 9999 ) so I might need something newer like an svn version, no idea, what do you think?
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