dhcpcd-discuss

On Thursday 24 December 2009 21:01:30 Victor Beffers wrote:
> Hi I tried KNetworkmanager  (http://en.opensuse.org/KNetworkManager)
> 
> on their page is says " For both, Wireless LAN and Wired LAN,
>  NetworkManager supports devices known to HAL.  ".....
> So my question is:
> does dhcpcd support hal and or KNetworkmanager?
> if it doesn't....any plans for the future?

dhcpcd does not need to support hal - it talks directly to the kernel for all 
interface events. I also discard any notion of support for hal, as hal lives 
in /usr and dhcpcd needs to work in /.

NetworkManager supports dhcpcd, but needs to be compiled for it instead of 
dhclient. I would imagine that as kNetworkManager is just a QT GUI on 
NetworkManager the support is already there.

You may also be interested in dhcpcd-gtk(dhcpcd-ui) [1] and dhcpcd-dbus [2].

Thanks

Roy

[1] http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd-ui
[2] http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd-dbus