Re: System settings with keyfile

[Robert Piasek <robert piasek co uk>]

Hi Dan,


Thank you very much for the instructions and your help. I've tried to do it 
myself using keyfile plugin specification, but I stacked on SSID. I couldn't 
figure out how to specify that. I've spend few hours trying before I gave up 
and posted to the mailing list. It would be good to stick it somewhere. (like  
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerConfigurationSpecification or 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/)


Cheres,
Rob


On Sunday 27 July 2008 19:45:58 Dan Williams wrote:
> 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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