NetworkManager Problems

[Todd Zullinger]

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Paul Johnson wrote:
> I've been testing some more.  I was unable to log in, and started
> re-tracing my steps. I turned off the "network" service, still no
> N-M joy.  But I grew tired of typing in the key over and over, and I
> installed the rpm gnome-keyring-manager.i386 2.14.0-1, and it would
> not run because it could not connect to the keyring daemon.
> 
> Then I tried the MS Windows solution: reboot.
> 
> After using modprobe to load the ipw3945 module and loading the
> userspace driver, then N-M did work.  After I typed in the WEP key,
> then the gnome keyring manager popped up and asked for a password.
> That's when I really knew I was in business!

Cool!  So you got it working good now?

> Hypothesis 1:
> 
> what if N-M failed to connect with my WEP key because
> gnome-keyring-manager was not installed?  N-M appeared to be doing
> nothing, but maybe it was looking for the keyring manager?

I'm sure that you may hesitate to break things at this point, but if
you feel adventurous it might be a useful test to remove g-k-m and
then see if NM still can connect to your network.  You could create a
new account to test under so you don't have to muck up anything in
your working one.

If it fails without g-k-m and works with it, then it seems like there
ought to be a dependency on that in NM.

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