On 12/16/2013 05:31 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > I was spinning my tires and decided to install "network-manager-applet." > To eliminate the gory details, what I learned was that Network Manager > was trying to authenticate my wireless card and asking for the password > to the router. The problem was that it was already associated and I just > glibly restarted the network when Network Manager brought my NIC down. > When I start Network Manager on boot, I get that repeating mish-mash and > must do all this after I've logged on. Is the whole situation as simple > as removing the "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network" from the boot process? Or is > it better to just pass "no" from the "ONBOOT" line of ifconfig.wifi0? > Yes, this is the way to do it. I changed the ONBOOT line in ifconfig.wif0 to "no." I again set up Network Manager to start on boot, but the scrolling messages stopped after notification that my NIC authenticated and associated. I didn't get my login prompt. I hit CTRL-C and enter, and then I could proceed.
It looks like Network Manager needs to start after login to keep the process running directly. So once again, I removed the daemon command from the startup scripts and set it to "autostart" when I started xfce4. However, I needed "sudo" to make it run. I've got what I want now, but since I used sudo, I think I have "gotten around" the console-kit and polkit security. I'm thinking that I need a rule for polkit to allow me, or members of the netadmins group to run Network Manager without a password. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
