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xsak
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Joined: 27 Aug 2003
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Location: Budapest, Hungary
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 Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject: wifi-radar vs. python |
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Hello!
Since I upgraded python, I cannot start wifi-radar ( http://www.bitbuilder.com/wifi_radar/ <- here's an ebuild).
It says the following if I run it from xterm:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/wifi-radar", line 1795, in ?
import gtk, gobject
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
from _gtk import *
RuntimeError: could not open display
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I tried to run /usr/sbin/python-updater , re-emerged python, pygtk, wifi-radar few times. No change...
What should I do? I don't know any non-kde gui program I can use to find, setup and connect to wifi networks...
Regards,
Akos |
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_loki_
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Location: in the shell
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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I would have guessed it's pygtk but if you remerged.. Anyway why do you need a gui for configurating wireless network? If you set up your
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/etc/conf.d/wireless
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and you have a chipset that supports scanning mode, you can connect to different wlans in prority witout having to do anything again. just store wep keys and ESSID names in prority and set
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associate_order="any"
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bringing up your wireless device it will automaticly connect to the ESSID in order.. That's by fare the nicest way to use wlan I have ever seen! Thanks to UberLord at this point  |
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xsak
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Hmmm, I was wrong. It was sudo (=my fault). When upgraded python, upgraded sudo as well, and after etc-update I forgot to set up sudoers correctly.
Huhh, now wifi-radar works.... |
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BigBaaadBob
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Location: Swampscott, MA USA
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If there were a category of "least helpful posts", _loki_'s post would certainly qualify. Instead of answering your question he tries to convince you you shouldn't have asked!
Anyway, your sudoers config may have been bad, but re-emerging pygtk fixed the problem. I just had the same problem and that fixed it.
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frozenJim
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Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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What did you do to get rid of the error? WHAT did you change in your sudo config file?
Up until now I have stayed away from sudo. But wifi-radar makes it worth installing. Now I just have to learn how to use sudo. sigh...
[edit: SOLVED]
Aha. The solution is to allow the user to export variables! (found it here: Forum Link)
The trick is to make sure that the group (or user, or users, or groups) that are permitted to use wifi-radar are ALSO permitted to export variables.
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Defaults:%wheel !env_reset
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%wheel ALL = /usr/sbin/wifi-radar
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<gentle_flame>
| _loki_ wrote: | | Anyway why do you need a gui for configurating wireless network? |
This ranks right up there with "well just use vi as an editor!". Many of us choose Gentoo because it gives us the perfect platform for delivering a 100% configured solution for our USERS. Our USERS will never, ever, use the command line. Our USERS will never, ever, edit a config file.
Gentoo may be the best distro for uber-geeks, but it's also the best for creating customized solutions for our ex-Micro$oft (and paying) customers.
</gentle_flame>
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