[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 10/03/2014 11:28 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
>> > NetworkManager gets wlan0 working normally, but the problem is the
>> > network doesn't come up until I log in and use the NetworkManager
>> > panel applet to enter the psk manually.  Ugh.

> As for NetworkManager, just log in to your DE as root or run kde-nm-
> connection-editor as root (assuming you're using KDE) and setup the 
> connection, then check "All users may connect to this network" on the general 
> tab of the connection details. It will then connect at boot whenever the 
> network is available (if you enable the NetworkManager service at boot) and it 
> also has the advantage that although the PSK is still stored as plain-text 
> only root has access to it.

I'd love to make that work, but so far it doesn't for me.  I ran xfce4 as
root, used the nm-applet to configure the wlan0 connection to "Store the
password for all users" but it didn't stick.  Next reboot I had to do it
all again.

Question:  do you see wpa_supplicant running after bootup?  I do, now
that I created /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.  NetworkManager
has a hook that starts it running if that file exists. (Or maybe dhcpcd
has the hook, can't remember now. they're both running in the background.)