From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BF013838B for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 21:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C7C5E0843; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 21:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EB89E07FE for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 21:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3F1A34031D for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 21:56:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.875 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.875 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.165, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id b3MA9ClpUt4Y for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 21:56:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2138634029E for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 21:56:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XaApV-0004Zp-Eq for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:56:01 +0200 Received: from 108-77-76-244.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net ([108.77.76.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:56:01 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 108-77-76-244.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:56:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:55:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2480371.OdIyU8vMPH@andromeda> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108-77-76-244.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: b7e71313-90a2-4135-b1c0-299f41a3f86b X-Archives-Hash: 83ec14755bc3f97edfa0a52fd61f567d 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.)