wierd zd1211rw wireless adapter problem

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Philip Walden wrote:

> 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.

Works fine for me.

Do you have these lines in /etc/pam.d/gdm:

         auth       optional    pam_keyring.so try_first_pass
         session    optional    pam_keyring.so

Is your keyring password the same as your login password?

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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