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NetworkManager works!
Posted on October 22nd, 2005 by Daniel
Well, I finally got NetworkManager working, complete with it’s StudlyCaps. It involves emerging it from gentopia, moving /etc/dhcp/dhclient-script.sample to /sbin/dhclient-script, and making sure gnome-keyring-deamon is running. I also had to modify the security for the NM dbus, because my home-brew session doesn’t seem to set on_console for some reason. Anyway, after that, and figuring out that “WEP Key (128-bit)” couldn’t accept a hex key and I had to use “Hex Key” instead (WTF? There’s an ASCII key too, so what’s the “WEP Key” thing?), it finally all works. Woot!
Now, I just have to figure out how to integrate it with my homebrew session management, and see if it works in the uber-cool multi-radio roaming setup we have at work…
The remaining option would be the passphrase.
As far as I know, there’s only two ways to configure a WEP key: with a hex key, or with a passphrase. What’s the third option in NM?