On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Levent S.B. wrote: > Hello altogether! > Longing to get away from the graphical overload of standard ubuntu, i > have finally decided to set up a minimal installation of oneiric-ocelot > 64 bit with awesome as window-manager. > So far i'm very pleased working with it, i'm just not very experienced > with configuring the system to my hardware. After successfully > configuring my sound chip, i'm now fighting with the wireless internet > connection. > > I have installed the NetworkManager and added nm-applet to my rc.lua as > described in http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Nm-applet. I have added > myself to the netdev-group and set „managed“ in > /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf to „true“ to make the nm-applet > handle connections. > This works fine for the normal eth0 wired connection. > > Available access points are displayed when clicking on the applet, but > selecting one doesn't have any effect, save for a „Wireless network > diconnected“ notification popping up. I'm not prompted for a password. > > Any suggestions?
I've solved this by running /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 when I start the session. AFAIK this thing is responsible for prompting the user for password. -Michal -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
