On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:44, Dave Maley wrote:
>On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 12:30 -0500, Gene Heskett 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.
>> >
>> >Larry
>>
>> I think mine (FC5) is different Larry.  I sure don't recall seeing a
>> 'save key' checkmark, and it sure isn't saving them.
>
>NM in FC5 and FC6 should offer you the option of storing the key in the
>gnome-keyring.  Maybe you don't have the gnome-keyring package
>installed?
>
>This is assuming you're running gnome, not exactly sure how this works
>in KDE.
>
I hate to admit it, but this may be one place where gnome is ahead of kde 
in that case.

>~Dave

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