10 Nov
2021
10 Nov
'21
11:24 p.m.
On Wednesday 10 November 2021 11:46:01 E. Liddell wrote:
On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 14:22:05 -0800
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
Yes, I use a self-built Frankenstein desktop, although I am looking for a
laptop, probably a Lenovo something, which looks best for me according to
what I've been reading online.
If it comes down to no wicd, that would be fine if I can still use TDE, as I
like to stick with Trinity where I can. At least this gives me some clue
about how to make it work.
For future TDE development, it would be nice to imagine that tdenetworkmanager
will work with both systemd and init, for those who care.
Maybe Santa Claus reads this mailing list?
Bill
If there are other solutions, I would like to
hear them, because so far
TDE works great, except for tdenetworkmanager. It would be nice if this
did not depend on neworkmanager, and thus systemd. Is there any hope of a
non-systemd networkmanager, if wicd becomes useless?
networkmanager is not, in fact, dependent on systemd as such—elogind should
be an acceptable substitute (if it isn't, it's because of the way your
distro has compiled it, not some innate feature of the program).
dhcpcd, with wpa_supplicant for wireless support, should be an adequate
alternative for most normal networking cases, although dhcpcd doesn't have
a GUI (configuring it should be something you need to do only once,
though—mostly it just needs to know what network card to bind to), and
wpa_supplicant's GUI wasn't great as of some years ago when I last needed
to use it. Neither should care what init system they're running on,
though.
If you've got a desktop, you may not need any of the above—I'm not sure
how Devuan operates, but Gentoo provides enough support for static wired
network configurations in the netifrc base package, although you need to
know things like the netmask and gateway address for your LAN to use it
effectively.
E. Liddell