On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Orr Dunkelman <orr.dunkel...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Ohad Lutzky <o...@lutzky.net> wrote: > > >> I also have my personal technical question, which you may be able to > help > >> in. I use Linux on a wireless home network, and I would like to do a > couple > >> of wireless network mounts, prior to any login screens. Any ideas on how > I > >> convince the computer to connect to the wireless before I logon? > > > > I'm not sure how to resolve this issue, but I can clarify the cause: > > WPA keys are stored within your user accounts, and are decrypted only > > when you log in. This may have changed in more recent versions of > > NetworkManager, such as the one installed in Ubuntu 8.10, but I'm not > > sure. > > 8.10 does the same. Actually it doesn't. As I wrote yesterday, in 8.10 you can choose to save any WPA key as a "System Settings". This way NetworkManager will use it even before logging in. I've successfully tried it on my home network. Haggai
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