NetworkManager connection to encrypted Wireless Network

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Fri Nov 14 21:18:53 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:49:32AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 19:35 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I don't.  It was configured once, and it doesn't need anything more.
> 
> Ok, just a side discussion here.  What would happen if you went to a
> coffee shop and needed to use the wireless there, or to an office and
> needed to use the encrypted wireless there?  How do you configure for
> that?

A wpa_supplicant configuration file allows for many different
networks but you have to edit it or you will be asked for a required
information every time.  Clearly NM, __when it happens to work__, is
definitely more convenient although creating tools which would edit
those config files "automagically" should be rather simple.  It
appears that few orders of magnitude simpler than getting NM into a
shape.

I already mentioned
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=413281
where NM messed up its configuration data and refused to recognize
that all of that is bogus.  Only an archeological dig in ~/.gconf
plus quite a bit of a guesswork allowed me to recover.  In
comparison editing wpa_supplicant configurations is obvious and
even documented ('man wpa_supplicant.conf').

It is not a question that NM could be often useful; only that
priorities seems to be backwards.  NM is not something entirely new,
where you can expect "teething problems", but has been around
already for a while.

   Michal




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