NetworkManager connection to encrypted Wireless Network

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 14 06:54:56 UTC 2008


On Friday 14 November 2008 00:04:08 Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:47:04AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > The interaction on KDE is likely not tested very well.  For a time kde
> > users had to use the gnome panel icon, which meant interaction with
> > gnome-keyring-manager which /should/ work in a KDE environment but
> > likely doesn't always.
>
> For what it's worth, on two KDE-centric distros, Mepis Beta (with KDE 3.
> something ) and Mandriva 2009 with KDE 4, I had trouble.  In all cases,
> I had to stop the various wpa and dhclient things being run and do it
> manually.  In both cases, it would, according to iwconfig, connect, but
> it wouldn't get an address, whether I manually configured it or tried
> with DHCP.
>
Equally FWIW, this laptop has Mandriva 2009 with KDE 4, and the wireless works 
flawlessly.

Anne
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