Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-20 Thread lanas
Le Samedi, 17 Oct 2009 08:19:48 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com a écrit : I think Fedora is generally invested in the heavier footprints of Gnome and KDE desktop managers and so a toolkit that relies upon GTK doesn't seem to bother anyone. I noticed that a Debian laptop running a

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-20 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 06:01 -0400, lanas wrote: Le Samedi, 17 Oct 2009 08:19:48 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com a écrit : I think Fedora is generally invested in the heavier footprints of Gnome and KDE desktop managers and so a toolkit that relies upon GTK doesn't seem to

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-17 Thread lanas
Le Vendredi, 16 Oct 2009 05:25:40 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com a écrit : On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 06:05 -0400, lanas wrote: So, should I delete this login.keyring file ? I'm porceeding with care here since this laptop is a gift and the birthday is coming near. I wouldn't want

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-17 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 09:27 -0400, lanas wrote: 2. Aaron is giving you nothing of usefulness. A laptop should use NetworkManager for connecting to wireless networks...that's one of the things that it is designed to do. I'd agree with this in the general sense. Although in this context

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-17 Thread stan
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:27:45 -0400 lanas la...@securenet.net wrote: Makes me think, since I'm still keeping an eye on scaled-down, to the point apps, what about wicd as an alternative to NM ? I'm tempted to try it eventually. No gnome dependencies. Has a ncurses-based interface for console

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-17 Thread Mike Cloaked
stan-56 wrote: On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:27:45 -0400 lanas la...@securenet.net wrote: Makes me think, since I'm still keeping an eye on scaled-down, to the point apps, what about wicd as an alternative to NM ? I'm tempted to try it eventually. No gnome dependencies. Has a ncurses-based

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-16 Thread lanas
Le jeudi, 15 Oct 2009 17:57:39 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com a écrit : sounds to me like you already stored the AP's WPA key in your stored keyring and only need to enter the stored keyring password to handle the authentication. Indeed. your problem isn't network manager, it's

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 06:05 -0400, lanas wrote: Le jeudi, 15 Oct 2009 17:57:39 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com a écrit : sounds to me like you already stored the AP's WPA key in your stored keyring and only need to enter the stored keyring password to handle the authentication.

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-16 Thread Mike Cloaked
Craig White-6 wrote: 2. Aaron is giving you nothing of usefulness. A laptop should use NetworkManager for connecting to wireless networks...that's one of the things that it is designed to do. Although I have not used the network service for a year or two now (except for wired

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-16 Thread Mike Cloaked
Craig White-6 wrote: I wouldn't expect this to all that difficult but you would have to configure iwconfig to be able to handle virtually all of this but since a laptop is essentially a mobile device, it makes far more sense to use a tool that is designed, at the user level to connect

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 05:25 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 06:05 -0400, lanas wrote: Le jeudi, 15 Oct 2009 17:57:39 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com a écrit : sounds to me like you already stored the AP's WPA key in your stored keyring and only need to

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 06:26 -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote: Craig White-6 wrote: 2. Aaron is giving you nothing of usefulness. A laptop should use NetworkManager for connecting to wireless networks...that's one of the things that it is designed to do. Although I have not

F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-15 Thread lanas
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 ! So basically it works but, after I enter the AP's WPA

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-15 Thread Craig White
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 !

Re: F11: Spooky network manager

2009-10-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
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