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Introduction
This project will improve NetworkManager integration with Gentoo. NetworkManager is a very popular tool making network configuration much easier which is used in many popular Linux distributions. However, it can’t deal with Gentoo network configuration files which makes it quite useless out of the box. This project will make it work properly in Gentoo.
Supported Features
Currently, this project will focus mainly on reading configurations. This will involve /etc/conf.d/net, /etc/hostname and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.
Wired Network and Wireless Network
1. DHCP network configuration 2. Static network configuration 3. DNS servers configuration 4. DNS search configuration 5. Routes configuration 6. Wireless adhoc network (!)Wireless Network Security
1. LEAP (!) 2. WEP 3. WPA/WPA2 Personal 4. WPA/WPA2 Enterprise (TTLS and PEAP have been tested)PPPoE Network
IPv4 and IPv6 Configuration (IPv6 requires a little configuration, see Configuration )
Monitoring
Changes made to /etc/conf.d/net, /etc/conf.d/hostname, /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf will be monitored and reported to NetworkManager. That means your changes to configuration file will immediately change your network settings without restarting anything! :–)
Saving connection configurations
All the connection settings will be written into /etc/conf.d/net, /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. You could see a preview at NetworkManager plug-in with writing support preview
! means the feature has not been tested yet.
X means the feature hasn’t been implemented yet.
Requirement
Your NetworkManager should be version 0.8 or above.
Install
You have to unmask NetworkManager0.8. The following should be added to package.keywords:
net-misc/networkmanager ~amd64
gnome-extra/nm-applet ~amd64 #for KDE is kde-misc/knetworkmanager
net-misc/mobile-broadband-provider-info ~amd64
sys-auth/polkit ~amd64
net-misc/modemmanager ~amd64
dev-util/gtk-doc-am ~amd64
dev-util/gtk-doc ~amd64
dev-libs/eggdbus ~amd64
sys-auth/consolekit ~amd64
gnome-extra/polkit-gnome ~amd64
net-misc/networkmanager-pptp ~amd64 # required if you use it
net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc ~amd64 # required if you use it
net-misc/networkmanager-openvpn ~amd64 # required if you use it
Thanks to Robert Piasek. He has added this project to layman. You could
layman -a dagger
and emerge. Notice that it’s called networkmanager-0.8-r100.
Configuration
Edit /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf and make it looks like:
[main]
plugins=ifnet,keyfile
[ifnet]
managed=true
auto_refresh=false
Then you can start your NetworkManager and enjoy :–)
There is some interesting options that may help you. See Configuration.
Screenshots
