On Thursday 27 September 2007 17:25, Patton Echols wrote: > There's a question here, but let me tell why first . . . > > After hearing the vulnerability of WPA to attacks on short pre-shared > keys, I decided to reset my wireless routers to more robust keys. > > Resetting Network Manager to use a different key was more of a > challenge. (I had thought that, upon finding that it's psk was wrong, it > would ask for a new one) But it didn't. NM just kept trying to connect. > > After some judicious googling, I found two instructions: > > The first (I think on Darren Alber's faq? but now I can't find the > page) was to reset the SSID with the following command: > > gconftool-2 --recursive-unset > /system/networking/wireless/networks/<ssid> with <ssid> replaced with > the correct one. (for what it's worth the correct directory on my ubuntu > system is: > ~/.gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks/<ssid> and gconftools does > not like the "." in the directory name) > > At any rate, once getting to the correct place, gconftool-2 did not > return any output, and a search of the man page did not reveal an > obvious "verbose" switch. But since there was no error, I restarted NM > using: > sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart > No luck, NM continued trying to connect with the old key. > > The second instruction was more of a brute force approach. Go to > ~/.gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks/ and removing the directory > named <ssid> Again replacing with the correct name. Another dbus > restart, no change. > > > FInally, having searched for quite some time to see if the old psk was > stored elsewhere, I re-booted the system. That finally worked -- and > now I'm finally getting to the question. > > As a linux newbie, one of the things I like is the ability to tweak, > break, fix etc the system without having to reboot all the time. I > assumed that I should be able to do so with NM and with other issues a > dbus restart is just what is needed. Can't I do this without a reboot? > Another way of asking: Where was my old key stored and what should I > have restarted so that NM would be forced to ask me for the new one?
I think this depends very much on what distro you use, and I don't see where you've told us that. In opensuse this is literally a 30 second job. Just open Yast, go to network card, edit the configuration for the wireless card and cut and paste your wpa password. Click finish and you're done. I realize if you're using something else this may not be helpful. I would look, though for where you configure your network card, and not Network Manager. Bob -- Bob Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
