Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, How does one save security setting with a wireless device? Seems that my nic always connects to the neighbours unsecured wireless router. Every time I start up I have to go into yast and configure the security settings. It doesn't seem to save. Is there a way to save the settings? Yes - it is kind of hokey but this will work. I had the same problems with my local network. I kept logging into my neighbors' networks. First off, enable KWallet. This is the tool which will store your passwords. In my systems, KWallet is run with a blank password. When you login to your local network with the WEP or WPA password, then KWallet should pick up your password and store it. You will then be able to re-login and should connect without a problem. This worked for me on 10.1 until recently. For some reason - after a SMART update - I can no longer login with a password on my network. I tried a few things (see the emails KNetworkmanager Wierdness last week in the archives) but had no success. To get around it, I did a few things. I took off my password on my WiFi. I enabled MAC detection to only allow my laptops. I also disabled ESSID broadcasting, so I have to know what the WiFi network is. So far, I haven't had anybody login, and I don't expect to. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings
Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, How does one save security setting with a wireless device? First off, enable KWallet. This is the tool which will store your passwords. In my systems, KWallet is run with a blank password. When you login to your local network with the WEP or WPA password, then KWallet should pick up your password and store it. You will then be able to re-login and should connect without a problem. Another way to do it is to choose the traditional method with ifup option in Yast's network device configuration module, instead of using knetworkmanager. Then you can set the password right there in Yast and it will remember it. If you need to store more than one configuration for different sites (say, your house and a coffee shop) you can set up multiple profiles with SCPM. This has worked quite well for me, and I travel around to a lot of different sites with different networks. I usually keep one profile for each network I frequent and one generic hotspot one (DHCP, no encryption) for coffee shops and the like. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 13:19, Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, How does one save security setting with a wireless device? Seems that my nic always connects to the neighbours unsecured wireless router. Every time I start up I have to go into yast and configure the security settings. It doesn't seem to save. Is there a way to save the settings? Yes - it is kind of hokey but this will work. I had the same problems with my local network. I kept logging into my neighbors' networks. First off, enable KWallet. This is the tool which will store your passwords. In my systems, KWallet is run with a blank password. When you login to your local network with the WEP or WPA password, then KWallet should pick up your password and store it. You will then be able to re-login and should connect without a problem. This worked for me on 10.1 until recently. For some reason - after a SMART update - I can no longer login with a password on my network. I tried a few things (see the emails KNetworkmanager Wierdness last week in the archives) but had no success. To get around it, I did a few things. I took off my password on my WiFi. I enabled MAC detection to only allow my laptops. I also disabled ESSID broadcasting, so I have to know what the WiFi network is. So far, I haven't had anybody login, and I don't expect to. -- kai Thank you Kai! Phil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
