wierd zd1211rw wireless adapter problem

Philip Walden pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net
Sun Mar 11 04:21:06 UTC 2007


Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Philip Walden wrote:
>
>> Philip Walden wrote:
>> Well after much fiddling, I was unable to get a reliable activation 
>> of eth1.
>>
>> So I switched to NetworkManager, as I had not had much luck with it 
>> in FC5 with a different wireless card and had stopped using.
>>
>> Well again after some fiddling, NetworkManager seems to connect 
>> reliably on login. It is annoying that it asks for the keyring 
>> password just after entering the login password. A rudimentary 
>> attempt to stop it doing this by editing the /etc/pam.d/gdm file were 
>> unsuccessful. Oh well it is good enough for now.
>
> $ yum search pam_keyring
>
> pam_keyring.i386 0.0.8-3.fc6 extras
> Matched from:
> pam_keyring
> The pam_keyring module allows GNOME users to automatically unlock
> their default keyring using their system password when they log in.
> This allows the data in the default keyring to be used more
> transparently. Ideally, users should only every have to enter one
> password (or physical token, etc.): the password they use to
> authenticate themselves to the system when they log in.
I installed it and rebooted, but I was still prompted the keyring password.

I read somewhere that this is a NetworkManager issue, not a keyring problem.




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