On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:32, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: >On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:19 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: >> It is straight-forward for me with SoftMAC using openSUSE 10.2 with >> KDE. In YaST, I told NetworkServices/NetworkDevices that I was using >> NM to configure, rather than the ifcfg method. After logging in, I >> clicked on the NM helper applet and clicked on the item for my AP. Up >> popped up a box for encryption type and key information. I also >> checked the box saying I wanted my key saved. Now when I first boot, I >> need to enter my password for the KDE wallet; however, the much longer >> WPA passphrase does not need to be reentered. NM then associates and >> authenticates with my AP without further actions by me. >> >> Of course, your distro may be different; however, on my system, NM is >> easier than anything I've ever had with any other OS, including >> Windows XP and openSUSE 10.0. I'm really pleased with it. ATM it >> doesn't work with d80211; however, Jiri is working on a fix for that. > >It works similarly with Gnome and Gentoo. I start the NetworkManager >service, and tell the boot scripts not to autostart the network script >for that NIC.
How precisely do you do that? In the ifcfg-device file, or by disabling networking in the runlevel? >Then, nm-applet stores the keys in the Gnome Keyring. I >have pam_keyring setup, so I can log in with my keyring passphrase, and >my keyring is automatically unlocked; but if you can't (or don't want) >to do that, you'll just get the password dialog for keyring, same as KDE >wallet. > >I have to say, NM is great to use, and I miss it when I can't use it. (I >have a 4318, so I can only use it at work where it's sitting right next >to my AP. Otherwise, I have to use prism54, which doesn't work with >wpa_supplicant/NM right now, for some reason I haven't tracked down >yet.) > >Daniel -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
