polkit and NetworkManager permission denied

[Jago25_98]

I'm getting permission denied (error 34) trying to use NetworkManager but I updated last week. I can't update now as I have no network connection! But I think it's already up to date anyway. Certainly equo conf update I've tried.

Related to:
viewtopic.php?f=52&t=29849&p=162384&hil ... er#p162384
?

In the meantime I would like to use wicd or at least have it installed ready as a backup. But I can't install it as I have no network connection and I can't remember all the commands to connect to a wifi point on the command line. I'd like to know how to use equo offline, download the packages on Windows and transfer via USB or rebooting (aka sneakernet):
http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title ... _with_WICD

Output of everything I could find related. As you can see I've tried many of the suggestions in other threads. You can also see that I appear to be running systemd. I remember being informed of this systemd change - is systemd relevent to this?
http://pastebin.com/ucYttbKF

edit:
ah, seems I'm on sysvinit rather than systemd as I thought I was. I think I prefer to stay with sysvinit if we think it's easier to use and a change to systemd would invite more work at this stage, especially since I'm on a wifi only connection right now.

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[email protected] ~ $ eselect sysvinit list
Available init implementations:
  [1]   systemd
  [2]   sysvinit *
[email protected] ~ $ 

[Jago25_98]

As a work-around I had to:

- plug in Android phone via USB
- turn off data connection on the phone
- connect to the WiFi network
- enable USB tethering

Basically USB doesn't need the permissions so we can use the phone as a WiFI dongle this way.

Now... I can't remember where to read those equo messages as they scroll by... they're not in /var/log/entropy/entropy.log so where are they?

[Halley68]

Thanks for sharing.