wireless on 9.04
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 11:55:09 UTC 2009
Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 18:28 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>
>
> I was mistaken, it's not a key it's an encrypted password, but the wifi
> passphrase _is_ stored by seahorse in hardy - at least when using nm
> applet.
>
>
>
> jay
>
Thanks I didn't know that.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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