What I did to get NetworkManager, ipw3945 & wpa2-personal to work.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Brian Millett wrote:
> I'm running F7, NetworkManager-0.6.5-3.fc7.  I just could not get NetworkManager
> to connect to my linksys wrt54g router with the security set to wpa-personal.  I
> googeled all day long and into the night and all I saw was a lot of other people
> with problems.
> 
> Tonight I tried to set the security to wpa2-personal on the router.  Tried again
> to connect and just no luck.  Stopped NetworkManager, power cycled the router,
> tried again.  Still nothing.  Then I noticed (while tailing /var/log/messages)
> that it was still trying wpa, but I had tried to make a new connection with
> wpa2-personal.
> 
> So I stopped NetworkManager, launched gconf-editor, located the settings for my
> router and unset all of the values.  Then I started NetworkManager, and selected
> my ssid.  Entered the pass phrase and watch in amazement as it made a connection.
> 
> So the long and short of it is that something in the gconf settings was stale
> and needed refreshing, but I had to do it by hand.
> 
> Hope this helps someone else.

Was this a fresh installation or upgrade?

Rahul