NetworkManager - Can not store wireless pass phrase

Uwe Kiewel ml at kiewel-online.ch
Fri Apr 10 12:20:13 UTC 2009


Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 15:49 +0200, Uwe Kiewel wrote:
>> Julian Aloofi wrote:
>>> In general it should save your password automatically (I assume you use
>>> Fedora 10). 
>> Oh, my fault: It's Rawhide :-)
>>
>>> Maybe you should delete your WLAN from the connection list,
>>> connect, enter your password and just reboot and see whether it worked
>>> automatically.
>> I have had also this idea, but it didn't help.
> 
> Did you ever deny nm-applet or nm-connection-editor access to the Gnome
> Keyring? 

Should I?
I only did the procedure as described below. (selecting my wlan in nm's
wlan-list. I never have been prompted for keyring manager or such
applications.


> Run 'gnome-keyring-manager' or 'seahorse' ('yum install
> gnome-keyring-manager seahorse' if you don't have them installed) and
> see if nm-applet and nm-connection-editor has access to the key in
> question.

I will give this procedure a try :-)

> 
> If all else fails, you can use the atom-bomb approach and 'rm -rf
> ~/.gnome2/keyrings' and then try to set the passphrase in
> nm-connection-editor again.

I do *not* have this file.



Thanks,
	Uwe





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