Saving network-manager network settings

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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Caleb Marcus wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007 3:57 PM, Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu
> <mailto:sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     Is there a way to save *and reuse* wireless network settings entered in
>     Network Manager applet? For example, settings needed to connect to
>     WPA[2] Enterprise Wi-Fi: security/encryption type, identities,
>     certificates, keys etc.
> 
>     It looks like all this is saved in
>     ~/.gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks/. However on the next
>     connection attempt to the same SSID all the corresponding fields in
>     nm-applet are empty...
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Šarūnas
> 
> 
> That's strange... I've never heard  of that  problem  before. Try going
> to the Gnome Keyring Manager (In the System menu, but not sure where...
> not on an Ubuntu box at the moment) and seeing if your passwords are
> there. Does it ask you for a keyring password when you try to connect?
> If so, it means that the passwords are remembered but your keyring
> password is not. Try deleting the keyring in Keyring Manager, and when
> NM asks you to set a new password, use a password identical to your
> system login password. If they're both the same, the act of logging into
> the machine should unlock the keyring via libpam-keyring.
> 
Keyring Manager works fine. It saves passwords, but it cannot save
network settings (security and encryption type), user identity,
certificate/keys locations etc.

Šarūnas





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