From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Pimentel Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Add wicd and wicd-service Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:05:31 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87mw4uhx1f.fsf@netris.org> <87386lb19f.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJN43-0005ub-V9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:05:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJN42-0000B7-RF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:05:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87386lb19f.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, guix-devel-bounces+d4n1=opmbx.org@gnu.org On 2015-02-04 22:22, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> * Unless run as root, the user interfaces to configure wicd via dbus >> always fail. The wicd dbus configuration file is supposed to allow >> anyone in the 'netdev' group to access and configure the daemon, but >> this doesn't work. I could use some help debugging this. > > This all works now, without running the clients as root! :) > I'm not sure which change in my configuration made things start > working. > > * I added my user to the 'netdev' group in my os-configuration for the > first time, whereas earlier I simply edited /etc/group by hand and > rebooted. > > * I just added Ludovic's new suggested 'name-service-switch' > configuration with nss-mdns support. > > * I'm now running on current 'master', and there have been some changes > there since my earlier testing. > >> I was pleased to discover that our xfce already includes a panel >> applet >> to configure wicd > > And this is working as well, although it seems unable to find some of > the icons. Anyway, it's a step in the right direction :) > > Enjoy! > Mark Great news! Thanks, -- Daniel Pimentel (d4n1)