On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 13:21 -0200, Matias Estrada wrote: > so you say it doesn't ask for the PAM password every time you reboot ? > mine keeps asking , so I went for nm-applet manual configuration. Now > it doesn't show the signal strength :( My experience is that the keys are stored in the gnome-keyring and you are asked for a WEP key for example every time you logon. In NM-0.7 it is supposed to be possible to get a machine wide passwd rather than a user specific passwd but I don't know if that is operational yet. > > > On Nov 15, 2007 6:27 AM, Henry Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 14:48 +0200, Firas Swidan, PhD wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I am trying to connect to my WAP wireless network and NetworkManager > > >> keeps asking for the secret phrase without connecting. Is there > > anything > > >> specific that I need to do to stop this and make the connection? > > >> > > >> Thanks in advance, > > >> Firas. > > > > >There is some confusion here. I suspect you mean WEP. If it is asking > > you >for a > > >secret phrase it means is is not open to anyone who connects. You need > > >to know the (usually 40 bit or 104 bit) string that was set up on the > > >AP. Note that 104 bits is 13 ASCII characters. > > > > > > Isn't it the case that the key for WEP or WPA is stored in the PAM > > keyring if you have PAM installed? I run Ubuntu (Gnome) so PAM is > > already installed, but if you run another distro/desktop and PAM isn't > > installed or configured then maybe it's not storing the WEP key? Once > > stored in PAM, then you only get asked for the PAM passphrase, but in > > the version of PAM supplied in Ubuntu 7.10 there is a checkbox in the > > passphrase dialog to always remember the PAM passphrase. > > > > --andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list -- ======================================================================= "It was a virgin forest, a place where the Hand of Man had never set foot." ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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