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Revision as of 05:26, September 9, 2015
NetworkManager
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NetworkManager is the de-facto network connection system for many Linux distributions. NetworkManager supports mobile phone, wireless, and wired connections. NetworkManager is intended to make configuring, and connecting easy.
Installation
disable wicd, wpa_supplicant, net.ethX, & net.wlanX and dhcpcd prior to starting network manager.
To install, emerge networkmanager and add it to the default runlevel:
root # emerge networkmanager root # rc-update add NetworkManager default root # rc
To list visible access points:
root # nmcli dev wifi list * SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY derp1 Infra 6 54 Mbit/s 30 ▂___ WPA2 derp2 Infra 7 54 Mbit/s 29 ▂___ WPA2 derp3 Infra 1 54 Mbit/s 27 ▂___ WPA1 WPA2 * connectedap Infra 1 54 Mbit/s 52 ▂▄__ WPA1 WPA2
It is also possible to add WiFi access point login information from the command-lin:
root # addwifi -S wpa -K 'wifipassword' mywifinetwork
The addwifi command is used to configure and connect to a WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi network connections. Network configuration entries are stored in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections so that it will be remembered in the future.
The following command will not work as long as you are in an install chroot environment. The reason for this is that addwifi will need dbus and rfkill to be set up. So during install, perform the emerge but save the addwifi command until after you have rebooted into Funtoo Linux.
Any users besides root will need to be added to the plugdev group to modify connections:
root # gpasswd -a $USER plugdev
If you're experiencing troubles, losing connection after a 45-second timeout with NetworkManager and dhcpcd, switch the dhcp backend to dhclient (net-misc/dhcp).
Gtk
Sessions for users may need ck-launch-session in .xinitrc to use nm-applet, or have sessions launched from a display manager.
root # emerge nm-applet
Kde
root # emerge plasma-nm
MAC spoofing
NetworkManager supports spoofing MAC addresses out of the box. Supply an arbitrary MAC address to the cloned address field.