NetworkManager - Why Doesn't nm-applet have a way of using WPA-PSK?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Nov 21 17:03:30 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 16:54 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> Dnia 20-11-2007, wto o godzinie 11:15 -0500, Dan Williams pisze:
> > When connecting to an AP that's changed properties, the APs current
> > properties should override the properties of the stored connection
> > details.  If they don't, it's a bug.  But it's also true that changing
> > the capabilities on the fly isn't as well tested as connecting to them
> > in the first place, mainly because people connect to APs much more often
> > than they switch their APs settings.  So I call bug.
> 
>  Yes, that's really annoying. Every three months when I change WPA-PSK
> password on my AP, I have to dive into gconf and remove my network from
> it. If I don'tn NM never asks for new password.

F7 or F8?  There's some known bugs with 0.6.x that cause it never to ask
for a new password when a WEP key changes, probably the same thing for
WPA too.

Dan





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