"D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@xxxxxxxxx> posted 4A64CFFF.2040000@xxxxxxxxx,
excerpted below, on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:13:51 -0600:
> I'm using 4.2.2, and it lists the physical interfaces (as well as the
> sockets) under the "Interfaces" menu item.
Thanks everyone.
Followup question: Is it possible/likely that kde is now depending on
some "automagic" system like networkmanager or the like, and that it is
simply blind to existing operational interfaces if networkmanager, etc,
are not installed?
I ask because I've never used such "automagic" here, as I have no need
for it. I'm running a desktop system with a plugged in Ethernet
connection that doesn't change, and when it does (when I change routers
or the like), I make the necessary system level config changes then. I
thus don't need any fancy GUI level "automagic", and in fact, given
previous experience, I'm rather suspicious of such things and their
ability to leave well enough configured systems and their config files
alone, as they've been the cause of quite a number of screwed up
previously perfectly working configuration files, in the past.
What I'm suspecting is that kde3 could detect the standard network
interfaces without help, but kde4 now requires some network manager
"magic" in ordered to do so.
If that's correct, then the followup to /that/ question is which packages
I need to look at for the appropriate functionality? kdelibs? Something
in kdenetwork (what?)? Something else? If I know where to look, I'm
reasonably sure I can rebuild it with the appropriate dependencies
(remerge with the appropriate USE flags), but knowing where to start
would be helpful.
--
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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