Re: F11: Spooky network manager

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On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 20:38 -0400, lanas wrote: 
> All,
> 
>   This could be a Halloween special but I'm afraid it's not.  This time
> around it looks like I have to 'tango macabre' with the network manager
> since the machine is a laptop.  If there's a way to use wifi w/o it,
> please let me know !
You can use network and system-config-network 
> 
>   So basically it works but, after I enter the AP's WPA key, NM pops up
> a dialog box with the caption: 'Enter password for default keyring to
> unlock'.  I spent minutes and minutes at that dialog box entering user,
> root and WPA passwords again and again (maybe I made a typo ?) to end up
> pressing the 'deny' button and see the wifi connection up and running.
> Of course, at the next boot it asked me to enter the WPA key again, as
> well as the 'unlock' password to which I replied 'deny' again.  This is
> instantly.
> 
It looks like, not surprisingly , the gnome keyring was given a passwd
when it was created. How to guess what that was is more a mystery.
I am not sure about that. I know that is not much help.
There is a program gnome-keyring which you can install. It used to
appear in the menus but now I can't find nor an I clear how to run it. 
> So what is that NM thing wanting for password ?  Looks like no
> existing password on the unit will satisfy it.  I have the impression
> that once this is done, then it'll remember the AP key.
> 
>   If this is solved, then I'll like to enter a static IP for that
> laptop (+ default gateway and DNS) for the wifi connection and I'm very
> afraid of the nightmare I could run into.
> 
>   In the best of worlds, please let me know if there's a way to havce
> wifi without this thing called network manager.  The laptop will always
> use the same AP, so there's nothing fancy to be done.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestion and ideas.
> 
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