Re: Password for default keyring to unlock

2011-01-12 Thread Pat Suwalski
You can just type in your user password. --Pat On 11-01-12 11:09 PM, Violet*** wrote: Hi My Name is Vi ~ I've always had Wi-Fi, but it was not password protected. I just set it up to be password protected and when I log-in My Linux is asking me to: [Enter password for default keyring to unlock]

Re: nm-applet gone from panel

2010-11-30 Thread Pat Suwalski
Make certain he has the Notification Area in the panel. Try adding a new one to the panel. --Pat On 30/11/10 03:01 PM, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: Hello, A friend of mine showed me a computer in which the nm-applet control icon (top-right corner) does not appear. It used to be there before bu

Re: NM 0.7.2.997 Wireless?

2010-07-09 Thread Pat Suwalski
On 09/07/10 04:21 PM, Pat Suwalski wrote: I just upgraded my system from 0.7.2 proper to 0.7.2.997. In the process, I seem to have lost the ability to scan for access points. nm-tool returns a blank list, but otherwise the output is identical. The wired interface works perfectly. Disregard. A

NM 0.7.2.997 Wireless?

2010-07-09 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello, I just upgraded my system from 0.7.2 proper to 0.7.2.997. In the process, I seem to have lost the ability to scan for access points. nm-tool returns a blank list, but otherwise the output is identical. The wired interface works perfectly. Using dbus-send and d-feet, there definitely a

Patch: Wildcard for no-auto-default.

2010-07-09 Thread Pat Suwalski
settings, rather than listing individual MAC addresses. Pat Suwalski diff -ur network-manager-0.8.orig/src/system-settings/nm-sysconfig-settings.c network-manager-0.8/src/system-settings/nm-sysconfig-settings.c --- network-manager-0.8.orig/src/system-settings/nm-sysconfig-settings.c 2010-

no-auto-default for all?

2010-06-17 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to apply something like no-auto-default to all devices, where one config file would work for all machines. Basically, I don't want to hardcode a MAC address. This is nm 0.7.2. I effectively want the system settings daemon disabled, as I'm dealing with h

Documentation Clarification.

2010-03-24 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello, I just spend quite a bit of time debugging a problem as a result of poor wording in the D-Bus Interface Specification: http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec.html Maybe it's since been corrected, but it states that the Connection.Updated() signal: settings - a{sa

Re: Bug in autoconnect?

2010-03-19 Thread Pat Suwalski
On Mar 18, 2010, at 20:49, Dan Williams wrote: >> Is that the intended behaviour? To me, autoconnect indicates that it's > > Yes. > >> to be automatically connected unless I tell it otherwise, which is what >> deactivateConnection() would logically do. > > You're probably looking for the Disco

Bug in autoconnect?

2010-03-18 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello, I'm playing with NetworkManager 0.80, specifically the (new) autoconnect feature. I've found that if autoconnect is set to true on a Connection, the backend runs GetSettings() on all of the Connections that have autoconnect set and brings them up. This appears correct. However, if I

Re: user settings service and fast user switching

2010-03-08 Thread Pat Suwalski
On 08/03/10 04:24 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: As far as I understand, there can be single user settings service which is registered on system bus. How is it expected to work together with fast user switching? E.g. I had to check something under clean user account, so I started second X session an

Re: Passwords and nm-applet

2009-10-11 Thread Pat Suwalski
If you use gnome jetting in insecure mode it uses a clear text file in your home directory. --Pat On 2009-10-11, at 18:28, "D.P." wrote: Hi, people [ system archlinux, kernel 2.6.31.3-brainfuck modified, netbook acer aspire one, networkmanager 0.7.1, xfce 4.6.1 ] 0. The first issue - nm-a

Re: Nice mockup

2008-02-29 Thread Pat Suwalski
Kos wrote: > hey, > > I came across the following mockup > (http://onlinedev.blogspot.com/2008/02/shape-of-things-to-come.html) and > I really liked it. > It is clean and simple. > > I would be happy to see it implemented. It shows a little more information than most users would be interested

Re: Asus EeePC

2007-12-27 Thread Pat Suwalski
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Well, I'll try to take a good look at this thing when I get it. Maybe > the information can be of help in some way. Having worked on this part of the eeePC, I have some useful information. The atl2 driver on the unit works great, the upstream source

Re: Proper WEP Code

2007-12-11 Thread Pat Suwalski
James M. Leddy wrote: >> In the former case you do need to make >> sure that the AP is set up for a password, and you'd better hope that >> the AP uses the same string-to-key as NM. > > Isn't that standardized? Not nearly as much as it should be. Perhaps the situation has improved in modern ti

Re: Proper WEP Code

2007-12-10 Thread Pat Suwalski
Aaron Konstam wrote: > I am confused as usual. You are seeming to say that 40/128 ASCII > passphrase are for APs that already have a passwphrase stored in their > memory. > > But then things get confusing. Are you saying that a 40/128 HEX > passphrase can actually change the passphrase stored in t

Re: running gnome applet as stand alone application

2007-12-02 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hi Daniel, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > Now I have gnome running, just to set things up and I use the > networkmanager applet but eventually I don't want to use gnome (I have > it installed and won't delete it but don't want to run it) but a very > simple window manager only. Is there a way to run t

Re: PKCS12 certificates

2007-09-08 Thread Pat Suwalski
Giovanni Lovato wrote: > How can I use a PKCS12 certificate to authenticate against a WPA > wireless network? Setting it on Client/Key certificate doesn't work... I'm not up to speed on the pkcs12 functionality of NM, but in the past I had to: openssl pkcs12 -in cert.p12 -out cert.pem T

Re: Trying to find Network Manager Applet on Gnome!

2007-05-29 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hi Bruce, bruce wrote: > I have FC5, running gnome, and NetworkManager. The Network apps have been > installed, and verified as being on the laptop. The processes (ps -aux | > grep Net) shows the Network Manager process as running. Also, nn-applet is > running. If nm-applet is indeed running, it

Re: Clarification on SVN storage of NetworkManager versions

2007-03-15 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello Aaron, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Lets try again. CVI => CVS > And the question is how does one download a src version of NM in order > to compile it from a SVN database? From: http://developer.gnome.org/tools/svn.html Just type: svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/NetworkManager/t

Re: "Enter password for default keyring to unlock"

2006-11-18 Thread Pat Suwalski
Phix wrote: > All I have to do here is enter my WPA-PSK and it connects flawlessly. > How do I configure my system so it connects automatically, like on my > sister's opensuse system? Hello. I think you are a little confused. The password you need to enter is the one to unlock your keyring, which

Re: Fwd: Problem changing authentication type for wireless connection

2006-09-29 Thread Pat Suwalski
Derek Broughton wrote: > The problem with that would be that the flood of messages already > doesn't make much sense. More isn't necessarily better. You keep saying that. But more is better in this case. Especially if the messages are from a different vantage point, and in this case, from the s

Re: Fwd: Problem changing authentication type for wireless connection

2006-09-28 Thread Pat Suwalski
Derek Broughton wrote: > I don't think the driver does - because, as I say, it normally scans > and associates without any trouble. It's wpa_supplicant that seems to > break things. You're comparing a one-time scan ("iwlist scan") with continuous scanning that actually makes wpa_supplicant (and

Re: Fwd: Problem changing authentication type for wireless connection

2006-09-28 Thread Pat Suwalski
Derek Broughton wrote: > You have a different definition of "apparent" than I do :-( It literally shows everything it does, is what "apparent" means to me. > wpa_supplicant puts out way more information than I can use, and none > of it seems remotely helpful. When I connect to an unsecured wirel

Re: Problem changing authentication type for wireless connection

2006-09-28 Thread Pat Suwalski
Rohit Kumbhar wrote: > I 'm sorry I didn't put that question correctly. How does NM determine > the authentication type for a *new* connection? The folder for > hasn't been created under my > .gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks/ yet. The connection type comes from the feedback NetworkMana

Re: Kismet and NetworkManager

2006-08-31 Thread Pat Suwalski
M. Willis Monroe wrote: > I only say this because it's somewhat of a pain killing NM both the > daemon and the applet, then restarting dbus (which kills many other > programs) and NM and the applet when you're done. You shouldn't need to do it quite like that. On Ubuntu, I just stop the daemon

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Pat Suwalski
George Whitmore wrote: > I just saw this post and I'm having almost the same issues of NO > connection with ANY WPA encryption settings. > I noticed your explanination that editing the config file is NOT needed. > Got a problem with that as Ubuntu wiki "how to" for installing > wpa_supplicant IS

Re: Doesn't always work after resume

2006-08-12 Thread Pat Suwalski
Stian Jordet wrote: > I have a problem that NetworkManager often (but not always) don't find > my wireless network after a resume. It always works after a fresh boot, > it sometimes work after resume. It always finds my neighbours > unencrypted network everytime, but I don't know if my WEP-encrypti

Re: g_slice considered awesome.

2006-08-04 Thread Pat Suwalski
Darren Albers wrote: > Debian Etch (Due in December), Ubuntu Dapper/Edgy, and slackware 10.2 > (The only distro's I have any knowledge of) all have Glib >=2.10 so > none of the changes will affect them but Debian Stable currently has > 2.8. 2.6.4, even. --Pat _

Re: PPTP Plugin Issues

2006-08-01 Thread Pat Suwalski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2) I'm a ultraportable user, so my screen is limited to 1024x768. It's > irksome that the configuration screen is larger vertically than resolution > -- have to ALT-F7 and move it around just to see the options. I took a look at the glade file to see if it could be easi

Re: Setting access point MAC address?

2006-07-22 Thread Pat Suwalski
Dan Williams wrote: > I don't think it should; but this may be affected by ap_scan value. In > any case, we shouldn't consider roaming by the driver as association > loss, and neither should wpa_supplicant. What seems to happen is that iwconfig shows that it continues hopping even if wpa_supplica

Setting access point MAC address?

2006-07-20 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello, I'm just having a heck of a time connecting to access points at OLS with NetworkManager. It seems that many, many people are in the same position. The network setup here is several WRT54G's running OpenWRT, all with the ESSID "linux", no security. What happens is that nm constantly hops b

Re: Wired network idea..

2006-07-06 Thread Pat Suwalski
Pierre Marc Dumuid wrote: > If I connect to a wired network.. do a wireless scan for the ESSID's in > the area (and possibly the MAC addresses of the routers) and auto-set > the IP / Gateway / DNS info based on the wireless router's in the area.. I believe this is an inherently bad idea. Especi

Re: Use of BCM4318 card with NetworkManager

2006-07-02 Thread Pat Suwalski
Michael Doube wrote: > I've generally failed to get good functionality out of NetworkManager - > it's been easier to use ifup et al., I think becuase NM doesn't seem to > recognise my security settings (I use an open security mode, not > restricted, and an ASCII WEP key) . There's nowhere to tell N

Re: Using Separate Keyring

2006-06-27 Thread Pat Suwalski
Jon Nettleton wrote: > The reason it is not designed like this is for security. If firefox > stores it's passwords in a keyring ( it doesn't yet ), and you download > random spyware/virus from the web and launch it, with the cookie jar > method the rogue program would have access to all your web p

Re: Using Separate Keyring

2006-06-27 Thread Pat Suwalski
Jon Nettleton wrote: > I think he is talking about the application acl dialog box, not the > password dialog. This should happen once for each keyring item that is > accessed by nm-edit. Selecting always allow should work so you are > never prompted to allow nm-edit to that keyring key again. I

Re: Using Separate Keyring

2006-06-27 Thread Pat Suwalski
Dan Williams wrote: > That's odd. Once you've typed your password in once, it should unlock > the keyring and you shouldn't have to type a password again until the > timeout, or until you log out. That's how it works for other apps, and > for the nm-applet in particular. Otherwise it would just

Using Separate Keyring

2006-06-26 Thread Pat Suwalski
One of the problems I'm having with getting my nm-edit program to be user friendly is that gnome-keyring asks about every single key that the user tries to access. I notice that all of the keys are just stored in the "default" keyring. My question is: would it make sense to store all of the Netwo

Re: nm-edit? Static entries?

2006-06-23 Thread Pat Suwalski
Vincent wrote: > When implementing this, please also make a "delete profile" (or whatever > you want to call it) button. I had this new unsecured network I could > connect to, which after a few days all of a sudden is secured. Now > everytime I login and this network is spotted it askes for a passw

Re: nm-edit? Static entries?

2006-06-22 Thread Pat Suwalski
Antony J Mee wrote: > More immediately, the static IP config stuff could be > implemented quite trivially as yup ... you've guessed it... > a ~cough~ VPN ~cough~ plugin. The architecture provides a > neat dbus interface precisely to set 'static' IP4Config, > routing information etc. one some inter

Re: nm-edit? Static entries?

2006-06-21 Thread Pat Suwalski
Jeff Moore wrote: > I am hoping that something like the nm-edit suggestion below is in the > works or is already implemented. I don't have a very good knowledge of > the inner workings of NM so I would like to ask all of you if there is > something in place that would allow an individual to statica

Re: nm-edit

2006-06-17 Thread Pat Suwalski
Daniel Espinosa wrote: > What about to have the oportunity to disable the DHCP of each > connection, then you can allow the user to store static IP's for each > network and save this data to a gconf key. I'm all for it, but it has to be implemented in the applet before an editor could take advanta

Re: nm-edit

2006-06-16 Thread Pat Suwalski
Robert Love wrote: >> Before I get too far on the interface, I want to solidify some things. >> First, only WEP keys are actually stored in human-readable form (the way >> the user entered them). So, I can't think of a nice way to let users >> handle something like WPA-PSK, unless nm-applet also

nm-edit (was: Re: [3/3] Do something with trusted networks)

2006-06-16 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello Robert, Robert Love wrote: > We definitely need a wireless properties editor. I don't like the idea > of having nm-applet provide UI for editing the entries, but we should > have a separate (launchable from the applet, to be sure) utility for > editing the stored networks. I've decided

nm-applet drawing artifact.

2006-06-16 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello, I've noticed for a while now that nm-applet leaves around a little square (presumably the remains of a menu or something) after some time running (little screenshot attached). I thought this was just Gentoo weirdness, but my Ubuntu install is doing it too. I didn't realize it was nm-applet

Re: Useful debugging techniques

2006-06-08 Thread Pat Suwalski
Adam Guthrie wrote: Hello, I'm trying to figure out how I can shutdown and restart NetworkManager with the --no-daemon option (for debugging). Right now my system starts NetworkManager and all the related stuff when I start it up. I would like to be able to shutdown -- and restart -- the daemon,

Re: nm-applet asks several times for keyring password

2006-05-30 Thread Pat Suwalski
Joris Vuffray wrote: I can confirm this behaviour on gentoo running gnome 2.14. From time to time, nm-applet will ask for the keyring password two or three times at the same time, popping two or three dialogs. Usually I pick the first one of these dialogs to enter my password and then everyth

Re: mailman list manager has a misconfiguration.

2006-05-15 Thread Pat Suwalski
Matthew Saltzman wrote: Then use a non-broken mailer. Suggestions for a non-broken, modern, text-mode mail client welcome. Pine only offers reply-to-sender, reply-to-"reply-to", and reply-to-all. Apparently, mutt is the same. That pretty much takes care of the ones that jump to mind. mail,

Re: A comment on NetworkManager

2006-05-11 Thread Pat Suwalski
Gene Heskett wrote: Ok, so where do I set that in t-bird? "Reply to all". --Pat ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Signal Strength on Atheros?

2006-04-30 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello, My ath_pci card is showing signal strength at about half of what it should be. This is consistent with how iwlist shows it, but the GNOME wireless applet has always shown it correctly. I don't know off-hand if it's always special cased, but it looks like it might have to be. Maybe when the

Gentoo: Different dhclient?

2006-04-09 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello, I recently installed NetworkManager 0.6.1 (-r2 in Gentoo), and went back to my Atheros card. I can't associate with WPA anymore for some reason, but I'll need more time to figure that out. As fallback, I tried a good old WEP association. Interestingly, the dhclient usage info showed up in

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-23 Thread Pat Suwalski
Robert Love wrote: I think many users these days, and most users going forward, use passphrases, so the best bet we can have is default to "passphrase" as the key type and expect our users to change it if needed. Otherwise, as Dan wrote, we are just asking for confusion. Hm. Well, then somethi

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-23 Thread Pat Suwalski
Robert Love wrote: Basically: WEP key: 26 characters, [A-F]|[a-f]|[0-9] String: < 26 characters, no restrictions. I am saying, my passphrase is a legitimate hex key. It cannot work beautifully if ASCII and Hex keys are also valid passphrases. I don't see how -- to the best

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-23 Thread Pat Suwalski
Robert Love wrote: This won't fly. As just one example, my passphrase at home is a legitimate hex key (I am, yes, an idiot). Differentiating between ASCII and passphrase is even harder. We need to ask. I've seen this in an implementation. It works beautifully. Basically: WEP key: 2

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-23 Thread Pat Suwalski
Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: ...and of course Murphy loves me and decided that somehow madwifi scuks even harder than I thought - with the neccessary patches applied to NM and the madwifi Driver all worked fine a few days ago but today it decided not to do WPA anymore. So I won't be able to test unt

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-23 Thread Pat Suwalski
Robert Love wrote: _ Authentication type: | Open system \/ | |-| | Shared key | | 802.1x | '-' The problem with this is that once

Re: Is NetworkManager Single User only?

2006-03-12 Thread Pat Suwalski
Eli Criffield wrote: NM should still try to be the way all linux systems (servers included) configure there network. That would include a drop dead easy applet that makes smart guesses about what you want, and a text interface if your system doesn't even running X, probably even text configuratio

Re: WPA on Atheros.

2006-03-08 Thread Pat Suwalski
Darren Albers wrote: > Have you tried the patch posted by Dan that patchs madwifi-ng to tell > NetworkManager that it supports WPA? > > http://madwifi.org/ticket/444 > > With that patch NetworkManager sees my Atheros card as supporting WPA. Yeah, that definitely got it. Good stuff! I spent hour

WPA on Atheros.

2006-03-08 Thread Pat Suwalski
Hello, I'm trying to get NetworkManager running with madwifi and wpa-psk. It tends to work (after a long association time) with WEP, but with wpa it just pops up a message saying "The requested wireless network requires security capabilities unsupported by your hardware." I know it should work, s