NetworkManager under KDE

[Timothy Murphy]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

>> >> I am running Fedora-12 with KDE.
>> >> Is it possible to configure NM (NetworkManager)
>> >> so that it starts before I login,
>> >> and does not require me to enter a password?
>> >> 
>> >> The instructions I have seen for this all seem to assume
>> >> that one is using Gnome rather than KDE.
>> > 
>> > system-config-network.
>> 
>> What about it?
>> I have the checkbox "Activate device when computer starts" ticked,
>> but this appears to have no effect.
> 
> Do you also have "controlled by NetworkManager" ticked? Try "allow all
> users to activate/deactivate". I have all three of these and it works
> fine.
> 
> And make sure of course that you're setting this stuff for the correct
> device, just in case.

Thanks very much for the response.
I did in fact have the correct entries under system-config-network .

I found in the end (by studying /var/log/messages)
that the problem was an error in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ,
where Fedora had at some point written "MODE=Master",
which according to the log-file is invalid
["ifcfg-rh: error: Invalid mode 'master' (not 'Ad-Hoc' or 'Managed')"].
After changing this to "MODE=Managed", all is well;
WiFi now starts before login.

I find it slightly odd that the effect of this error
is that one has to enter a password;
I would have thought it would be an error 
whether a password was given or not.

I also find the NetworkManager entries in /var/log/messages
excessively verbose; they seem to take up about half of this file,
which suggests to me that NM is excessively complicated.


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