Hi Ottavio, On 11/10/13 21:32, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
I've finally managed to install the amd64 port onto a usb disk to use with a Thinkpad X61. When running the post-installation utility from the installer, I was given the option to configure the network. The interfaces available were wm0, iwn0 and fpiw0. So I selected the iwn0 (wireless) but the installer complained that it couldn't find a carrier (odd, because the router is a couple of metres away) and it timed out. So I selected wm0 and it correctly found the network and was able to install pkgin. However now every time I boot the system it hangs a couple of minutes trying to configure wm0 even when no cable is plugged in. 1) Is the above mentioned intended behaviour? 2) How can I tell the system not to spend time configuring the card if no cable is plugged in, without blacklisting the card in rc.conf?
Look for ifwatchd(8). I think, it resolve this problem. See for example http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html?-tags=ifwatchd
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And the most urgent one: 4) I swap between home (wpa) and public library (open network) wireless. Is there any kind of user friendly gui-based applet that can help me switch between these networks?
You can have more than one network in wpa_supplicant.conf(5)In pkgsrc/net you find wpa_gui based on QT4 but I have no experience with it.
Wpa_cli in wpa_supplicant package is for command line.
On Linux I was using network manager and nm-applet. I understand they are not available either as a binary package or in the ports. I believe PC-BSD has a similar applet. Is it possible to install it on Netbsd and if so, how?
No. PC-BSD base upon FreeBSD. That are other binaries, path ...You find in pkgsrc/meta-pkgs the gnome-package. The Makefile has listed the depended packages. I think nm-applet is a gnome applet.
Best regards Thomas
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