NetworkManager SVN?

[termite]

Has anyone played around with the current SVN of NetworkManager? Does static IP support work? What works? What doesn't? Anyone want to put together a live ebuild? It would be awesome to finally have a decent GUI network manager...

[ToeiRei]

you might want to check out the search function...

Guess you're looking for that thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-629987-highlight-networkmanager.html
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[termite]

I expected it to be in unsupported, where it should be, so I searched that...

[hirakendu]

I must say networkmanager (0.6.5), in conjunction with the gui frontends of knetworkmanager (in kde) and nm-applet (in gnome) work really really well. AFAIK, manually setting IP is not possible, but then again, nowadays its all dhcp (hope you can set up your router to do that ). Also heard its a little specific to device drivers and driver versions, but I have used it flawlessly on many devices both wired and wireless, and its a bliss. The only downpoints - the library libnl (net link?) it depends on is mercurial (because I guess it depends on kernel headers which also keep changing), so one may run into compilation troubles. Very rarely I had troubles with the underlying dhcdbd that handles the dhcp part - once in a rarity it might fail to reconnect, but the gentoo networking scripts which use dhcpcd instead are failproof . (I think a seasoned gentoo user, though using networkmanager for ease, should be also acquainted with the caveman-style but solid gentoo networking scripts for fallback . Cough cough... also ifconfig, iwconfig, dhcpcd ... :p.) Other things - it may not be able to handle ultra fancy networks (I haven't tried vpn etc, though I guess support are there).
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