On 10/03/2014 11:28 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: >> > NetworkManager gets wlan0 working normally, but the problem is the >> > network doesn't come up until I log in and use the NetworkManager >> > panel applet to enter the psk manually. Ugh.
> As for NetworkManager, just log in to your DE as root or run kde-nm- > connection-editor as root (assuming you're using KDE) and setup the > connection, then check "All users may connect to this network" on the general > tab of the connection details. It will then connect at boot whenever the > network is available (if you enable the NetworkManager service at boot) and > it > also has the advantage that although the PSK is still stored as plain-text > only root has access to it. I'd love to make that work, but so far it doesn't for me. I ran xfce4 as root, used the nm-applet to configure the wlan0 connection to "Store the password for all users" but it didn't stick. Next reboot I had to do it all again. Question: do you see wpa_supplicant running after bootup? I do, now that I created /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. NetworkManager has a hook that starts it running if that file exists. (Or maybe dhcpcd has the hook, can't remember now. they're both running in the background.)
