network manager

[lordfabri]

hello evrybody..anyone knows how i can install network manager on gnome?

thanks!

[Nick Guenther]

Post by lordfabri
hello evrybody..anyone knows how i can install network manager on gnome?
thanks!

First: have you installed the associated gnome-* packages?
Second: judging from it's homepage
(http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/) it seems pretty
linux-centric (and needs linux's HAL?). This isn't too surprising,
networking is a fairly low level OS-specific operation, and the
network manager would have to contend with all the varieties. Anyway,
NetworkManager is flakey from my rare interactions with it on Ubuntu,
why bother?

-Nick

[lordfabri]

Hi Nick and thanks for the answer.

I have installed openbsd on my laptop and everything works fine,gnome too.
What i haven't uderstand is:

1)I have a Digicom usb wifi with Zydas chipset and i 'vre read it's just
supported...but i don't know to activate (command not found with lsusb and
lspci)

2)Is there a graphical network manager like wicd or something where i can
use wifi connections?

3)The audio. What do i need to initialize it?

4)Tar,zip ecc..how do you add with right-clck the function extract here?

5)Opera has Java included?Because from ports in java i can't install it the
output is error 1 while installing...

thanks !!

Post by Nick Guenther

Post by lordfabri
hello evrybody..anyone knows how i can install network manager on gnome?
thanks!

First: have you installed the associated gnome-* packages?
Second: judging from it's homepage
(http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/) it seems pretty
linux-centric (and needs linux's HAL?). This isn't too surprising,
networking is a fairly low level OS-specific operation, and the
network manager would have to contend with all the varieties. Anyway,
NetworkManager is flakey from my rare interactions with it on Ubuntu,
why bother?
-Nick

[Rene Maroufi]

Post by lordfabri
Hi Nick and thanks for the answer.
I have installed openbsd on my laptop and everything works fine,gnome too.
1)I have a Digicom usb wifi with Zydas chipset and i 'vre read it's just
supported...but i don't know to activate (command not found with lsusb and
lspci)

lspci and lsusb are not part of OpenBSD, you can use usbdevs (instead of
lsusb). Read:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Setup
and
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless
how to configure network. For permanent configuration use
/etc/hostname.if (change if with your interface name), for temporary
configuration you can use ifconfig and/or dhclient.

Post by lordfabri
3)The audio. What do i need to initialize it?

Read:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#confaudio
Check the output of mixerctl, maybe your soundcard is automatically
configured but mixersettings are mute.

Cheers
Reni

[Nick Guenther]

And if mixerctl doesn't help you then post a dmesg. It is good
practice here to always send a dmesg when you have a hardware issue.
There is no GUI wifi manager that I know of. There are various scripts
that people have posted to misc@ over time to try to make wifi
management 'smart'/'windows-like', but most OpenBSDers seem to prefer
just typing a line at the command prompt.
-Nick

Post by Rene Maroufi

Post by lordfabri
Hi Nick and thanks for the answer.
I have installed openbsd on my laptop and everything works fine,gnome too.
1)I have a Digicom usb wifi with Zydas chipset and i 'vre read it's just
supported...but i don't know to activate (command not found with lsusb and
lspci)

lspci and lsusb are not part of OpenBSD, you can use usbdevs (instead of
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Setup
and
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless
how to configure network. For permanent configuration use
/etc/hostname.if (change if with your interface name), for temporary
configuration you can use ifconfig and/or dhclient.

Post by lordfabri
3)The audio. What do i need to initialize it?

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#confaudio
Check the output of mixerctl, maybe your soundcard is automatically
configured but mixersettings are mute.
Cheers
Reni
--
Reni Maroufi