setting up WPA Personal (F9 & KDE 4.1 (from updates-testing))

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:06 -0700, Michael Park wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> >> I read here ( http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3462 ) that KDE 4.1's
> >> getting a plasmoid front-end to NetworkManager (which doesn't seem to
> >> be in 'updates-testing' yet).
> >
> > The Gnome nm-applet works fine under KDE.
> >
> 
> So I tried that, specifically I did a:
> 
> [bailey at homer:~]$ sudo yum install NetworkManager-gnome
> 
> ...which pulled in 'gnome-panel' and 'gnome-panel-libs'. However, when
> I tried to start 'nm-applet', I got the following error:
> 
> [bailey at homer:~]$ nm-applet
> 
> ** (nm-applet:6268): WARNING **: <WARN>
> applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the
> NetworkManagerUserSettings service.
>   Message: 'Connection ":1.344" is not allowed to own the service
> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies
> in the configuration file'
> 
> 
> (nm-applet:6268): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> 
> ...same thing happened when I tried it as 'sudo' (also, when I
> restarted both 'network' and 'NetworkManager' services). Is this a
> dbus problem or some kind of PolicyKit thing?

Hmm, all I can say is it works for me and I didn't do anything special.
Does it work under Gnome?

poc