On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Paul Johnson wrote:
I've been testing some more. I was unable to log in, and started re-tracing my steps. I turned off the "network" service, still no N-M joy. But I grew tired of typing in the key over and over, and I installed the rpm gnome-keyring-manager.i386 2.14.0-1, and it would not run because it could not connect to the keyring daemon. Then I tried the MS Windows solution: reboot. After using modprobe to load the ipw3945 module and loading the userspace driver, then N-M did work. After I typed in the WEP key, then the gnome keyring manager popped up and asked for a password. That's when I really knew I was in business! Hypothesis 1: what if N-M failed to connect with my WEP key because gnome-keyring-manager was not installed? N-M appeared to be doing nothing, but maybe it was looking for the keyring manager? Hypothesis 2: Perhaps the NetworkManager RPM should have a pre-requisite of gnome-keyring-manager.
It would be good to relate your experiences on the NM mailing list (see mail.gnome.org to subscribe).
-- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
