[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-3-Alpha2: Broadcom wireless driver fails to connect to SSID

jpbfree jpierre.benoit at free.fr
Sun Oct 21 20:09:27 CEST 2012


Le 21/10/2012 19:52, jpbfree a écrit :
> Le 21/10/2012 11:29, jpbfree a écrit :
>> Le 20/10/2012 23:04, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
>>> Are you using drakxtools to configure wlan, or NetworkManager ?
>>>
>>> I see the issue when configured with drakxtools, but not with NM.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> Thomas 
>>
>> Hi Thomas
>>
>> How can i be sure i use NM instead of drakxtools when configuring my 
>> wireless card ?
>>
>> only place I see NM is when asked if i want my wireless card be 
>> managed by network manager!
>> (my own translation from the top of my head)
>>
>> thanks in advance for your time.
>>
>> JPB
>>
>>
>>
> answering my own question.
> I follow the MAGEIA QA procedure at
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_procedure:Knetworkmanager
> and now it automagically reconnect after a reboot or a suspend/resume :-)
> only drawback; i have to enter a passwd for kwallet :-(
> so two questions:
> - is there a way to store the password locally?
Sorry for boring the list with my problem (write too soon)
found the setting (hidden in security) to store the wifi passwd locally.

Happy camper now
> - this is a default mga3a2 X86_64 installation so i hope for final 
> mga3 networkmanager
> will be the default program?
>
> JPB
>
JPB


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