Talk:NetworkManager

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Contents 1 Merge 2 0.8 3 dbus 4 3g 5 dhcdbd 6 network-dispatcher

Merge

0.7x is default, stable and in the repos. I've worked my way through the installation based on parts of this guide and the 0.7 wiki stub. All seems to be working well. Anybody opposed to moving on with the merge?--stefanwilkens 16:35, 23 February 2009 (EST)

Go for it. --Liquen 14:26, 17 March 2009 (EDT)

0.8

Has now been in the repos for a while, so this is now a bit outdated...

-benji

dbus

"Also check that HAL is installed, and loaded as a daemon in rc.conf. You may have to enable dbus as a daemon as well, or Networkmanager may crash. "

shouldn't dbus be loaded automatically by hal? ("When HAL initializes it will check for the presence of D-Bus and load it automatically. If you have dbus in your list of daemons, remove it, since it can cause problems." - quoted from HAL page) is it necessary to specify it anyway so that NM won't crash?

pikiweb

I get an error in my shutdown process unless I declare dbus before hal (dbus hal networkmanager). I think it's due to hal either autokilling the dbus process or not shutting it down at all (so it's killed by the system later). It's not a big deal, but I think we should change the recomendations to (... dbus hal networkmanager).

-luciferin

3g

Has anybody managed to set up 3g connectivity? When I click on the broadband connection icon, I'm getting two warnings, but nothing happens:

(nm-applet:2719): Warning: **: _nm_object_get_property: Error getting 'State' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/2: Method "Get" with signature "ss" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist
(same for 'Default')

nm-tool reports:

- Device: tts/USB0
  Type: Mobile Broadband (GSM)
  Driver: option
  State: disconnected
  Default: no

  Capabilities
      Supported: yes

any ideas?

dhcdbd

'You must also "disable" the default network daemon, and add the hal, dhcdbd and networkmanager daemons'

What's dhcdbd ?

network-dispatcher

This section of the entry appears to be wrong.

The pacman install of networkmanager I tried does not install /etc/rc.d/networkmanager-dispatcher or any scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d

I'm using networkmanager-0.7.0-1. Is this feature going to be added to the pacman install, or is the wiki entry just wrong?

---

AFAIK there is not supposed to be any /etc/rc.d/networkmanager-dispatcher and as for the scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/, you need to provide them yourself.

Heres a suitable script for ntpdate that "wonder" posted in the forums:

#!/bin/bash
case "$2" in
       up)
               if [ /etc/rc.d/ntpdate ]; then
                  /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start
               fi
       ;;
       down)
               if [ /var/run/daemons/ntpdate ]; then
                       /etc/rc.d/ntpdate stop
               fi
       ;;
esac