NetworkManager connection to encrypted Wireless Network

[Timothy Murphy]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> The gnome keyring is a secure storage of various passphrases that you
> may use during your session.  It typically has one password to unlock
> the key, and then other passphrases can be fetched from the keyring for
> various applications.  Quite often, the keyring has the same password as
> your login password, but this isn't required (nor should it be
> encouraged).

My experience (with KDE) is that NM sometimes gets into a state
where it endlessly asks you for your keyring password.
In general, NM seems to suffer from severe short-term memory failure,
asking the same question over and over again.