NetworkManager connection to encrypted Wireless Network

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Thu Nov 13 18:01:08 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 12:09 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.

AIUI, the wireless protocols make it very difficult to diagnose why a
connection failed.  All you can really do is (a) try again or (b) fail.

There seems to be an issue with the iwl4965 driver (and maybe others)
that gives NM fits.  You could try a direct connection with
wpa_supplicant to see if that makes a difference.  (I haven't tried this
with my iwl4965 because it sits near a wire.)

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                Matthew Saltzman

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