Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 427159
no way to get rid of wifi keyring password coming up every login
Last modified: 2009-01-09 00:40:20 EST
Description of problem: the keyring manager won't go away and manual network configuration won't work as when i try to enable it in system-config-network i lose my connection completely. i want my wifi network to come up on boot and not be asked for password when logging in everytime. i'm the only one using the computer so internet can always be on. but can't find a way to fix this...
Reassigning to sane component. What it sounds like is that you don't want NetworkManager meddling with things. In that case, you can use 'chkconfig NetworkManager off ; chkconfig NetworkManagerDispatcher off', and use system-config-network to set it up. I'm unfortunately not that familiar with setting up wireless keys that way, since I generally use NetworkManager.
yeah that sounds like what i need to do, but there are problems with NetworkManager, it doesn't seem to be as good as network-manager-gnome like you get on ubuntu etc (although it's not available through yum). when i try and activate the network with NetworkManager it returns errors: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Determining IP information for wlan0...dhclient(3037) is already running - exiting. This version of ISC DHCP is based on the release available on ftp.isc.org. Features have been added and other changes have been made to the base software release in order to make it work better with this distribution. Please report for this software via the Red Hat Bugzilla site: http://bugzilla.redhat.com exiting. failed.
I think that those messages are indicative of the fact that the wireless network interface is already up. I'm not sure what you mean by the network-manager-gnome - you mean the little applet that lets you switch between wireless networks and the wired network dynamically? That's in NetworkManager-gnome, and really the only way that I know how to use NetworkManager. Looking at the init scripts and the default order, it looks like you need to use wpa_supplicant in order to authenticate to the wireless network, configuring the keys and whatnot in /etc/wpa_supplicnat/wpa_supplicant.conf. I checked in system-config-network on my laptop, and it appears to have facilities for setting the wireless keys, etc. So what you would need to do is turn off NetworkManager (either via system-config-services or chkconfig) and turn on network. Let me know if that clears things up.
You don't have to disable NM completelly, there is an option NM_CONTROLLED=no that you can add to your /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-wlan0 and then NM should ignore this device. Jirka
hi i'm sorry to be no naive with this wireless stuff but i don't want to do anything that will lose my connection because then i won't be able to get help to get it back on. what is the best thing to do step-by-step and how should i go about it? thanks for any help. i think also that someone should add an option in gnome to start wireless on boot and not need the keyring manager etc... it's not very userfriendly at present, there is no obvious way to a new user to get access to internet on boot.
Hi, I found a good "howto" that should help you to solve the problem. http:// fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager Jirka
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