copying networkmanager connections

[John5342]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 18:20, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
>
>  I did a fresh install with kde4 - and I want to copy the networkmanager
> applet connections from another laptop - can someone tell me which files
> to copy from old to new laptop so it has the same already working
> wireless and wired networks setup?
>
>  thanks.
>
>  I looked in ~/.kde/share/apps/networkmanagement
>  which has:
>
>  (I don't have a ~/.kde4 directory)
>
>     /connections - empty directory
>     /secrets     - has uuid like file names each with psk=<passwords>
>
>  but i cannot find the list of connections - even tho I found the
> passphrases

The actual connections should be stored as
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*

The uuid names in the secrets folder you found should match up with
the uuid in each of the ifcfg-* files.

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