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. > -- ======================================================================= You are false data. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
