Re: System settings with keyfile

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 20:04 +0100, Robert Piasek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could anyone be kind enough to send me an example of keyfile plugin file for 
> wireless config?

[802-11-wireless-security]
key-mgmt=none
wep-tx-keyidx=0
auth-alg=open
wep-key0=33b7af2400ba80f060f144e195

[connection]
id=Wireless connection 1
type=802-11-wireless
autoconnect=true
timestamp=0

[802-11-wireless]
ssid=102;111;111;98;97;114;
mode=infrastructure
channel=0
rate=0
tx-power=0
mtu=0
security=802-11-wireless-security

[ipv4]
method=manual
addresses1=192.168.1.2;24;192.168.1.1;
routes1=192.168.1.2;24;192.168.1.1;
ignore-dhcp-dns=false

How I got this:

1) stop NetworkManager
2) killall -TERM nm-system-settings
3) /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings --debug --plugins=keyfile
4) /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
5) Make a new wireless connection, fill everything out, then hit OK
6) re-open the connection and check the "System connection" checkbox,
then hit OK again

Steps 5 & 6 may not need to be separate, that's just how I did them
because I hit OK too fast in step 5 then remembered why I was there :)

The routes1 field is also bogus here and shouldn't be filled in, but
apparently we're screwing something up in the connection editor.

Dan

> 
> On Saturday 19 July 2008 01:52:42 Robert Piasek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to use system wide configuration for NM, but there is no
> > native plugin for my distribution. That leaves me with keyfile plugin.
> > I've tried to use it, but so far without any luck.
> > First I tried to find a decent example of configuration file, but I
> > could only find a specification page without any examples. My tries to
> > create a config file based on on that specification failed.
> >
> > Than I tried to save my current config by selecting system settings
> > checkbox. But every time I click OK, it always comes up with the error
> > message "Adding connection failed: Launch helper exited with unknown
> > return code 1." (not very useful error message :p).
> 
> BTW this error message is generated when you try to save your connection as 
> system-settings, and /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf does not 
> exists.
> 
> 
> > Since system wide
> > settings are using policykit, so I'm _guessing_ it might be related.
> > I've added section below to my policykit.conf, but it didn't change
> > anything.
> >
> >
> > my PolicyKit.conf contains:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration
> > 1.0//EN"
> > "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd";>
> >
> > <!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->
> >
> > <config version="0.1">
> >      <match user="my_username">
> >          <return result="yes"/>
> >      </match>
> > </config>
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob
> >
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