NetworkManager Problems

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Paul Johnson wrote:

> I've been testing some more.  I was unable to log in, and started
> re-tracing my steps. I turned off the "network" service, still no N-M
> joy.  But I grew tired of typing in the key over and over, and I
> installed the rpm gnome-keyring-manager.i386 2.14.0-1, and it would
> not run because it could not connect to the keyring daemon.
>
> Then I tried the MS Windows solution: reboot.
>
> After using modprobe to load the ipw3945 module and loading the
> userspace driver, then N-M did work.  After I typed in the WEP key,
> then the gnome keyring manager popped up and asked for a password.
> That's when I really knew I was in business!
>
> Hypothesis 1:
>
> what if N-M failed to connect with my WEP key because
> gnome-keyring-manager was not installed?  N-M appeared to be doing
> nothing, but maybe it was looking for the keyring manager?
>
> Hypothesis 2:
>
> Perhaps the NetworkManager RPM should have a pre-requisite of
> gnome-keyring-manager.

It would be good to relate your experiences on the NM mailing list (see 
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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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