setting up WPA Personal (F9 & KDE 4.1 (from updates-testing))
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Aug 8 14:48:51 UTC 2008
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?
>
> > The community wisdom around here is that you should choose between
> > system-config-network and NM, but don't try to mix them as they don't
> > get on, i.e. disable one or the other. On the whole NM seems better
> > suited to wireless, though personally I use it with a wired connection
> > and haven't had problems.
>
> Gotcha, thanks for the heads-up.
>
> > poc
>
>
> --Mike
You need all the rpms below installed for it to work.
NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.9.4.svn3675.fc9.i386
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.9.4.svn3675.fc9.i386
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.9.4.svn3675.fc9.i386
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