wireless on 9.04

[Karl F. Larsen]

Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 16:45 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:41:24 -0600
>>> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 	I am sorry. What you say is contrary to what I KNOW is fact.
>>>> First you can not have this problem with intrepid, hardy or gutsy
>>>> since they have no keyring software.
>>> Hmm, my Hardy, under System>Preferences, has a package titled,
>>> "Encryption and keyrings."
>>>
>>> I guess that  isn't about keyrings, right?  Probably not about
>>> encryption, either.
>>>
>>> Sheesh, Karl.  It seems that what you KNOW is fact isn't any such thing
>>> at all.
>>>
>>> I still fail to see what it is that you deem to be a problem.
>>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>> 	Just for fun I rebooted into hardy and your exactly right. I had a hard 
>> long look and it is for sure tied in with PGP. I didn't see how it might 
>> tie into NM. I will, for fun look at Jaunty and see if it is different.
>>
>>
> 
> I believe that if you use wifi, it will save your password or key in
> your keyring.  In other words an encyrpted version of your wifi password
> or phrase.  This has nothing to do with your gnupg or pgp _email_ key
> that you use for signing messages.

	You are dead wrong! What happens is the first time you get wifi working 
you connect to the Internet. But then a panel with keyring in the title 
comes up and asks for a password twice so it can be sure. You give it 
one and it goes away and wifi is working fine.

	Next time you reboot you come up and the keyring panel comes up and 
asks for your password. If you give the proper password then wifi comes 
up and your fine. It works this way forever.

	It appears that the Network Manager keyring is stored in 
/home/name/.gmome.keyring and this is what is called when NM is involved.

	A better solution was the old one on Hardy, where you put the password 
for your router in NM and it then worked. Reboot and it comes up 
automatic. It works this way forever.




> 
> I may be wrong, but I don't think anyone should remove the key manager
> in Ubuntu Gnome.  You can add keyrings like medibuntu etc, but unless
> I'm mistaken? you should not remove it.
> 
> 
> 
> jay
> 
> 


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