On Sun, 14 May 2006, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
First off, this should have been posted on suse-linux-e. The ifplugd is for hard wired connections not wireless. For wireless try using networkmanager, although it is -very- poor for encrypted connections. If you have an encrypted connection that does -not- broadcast the essid you need to reenter the config every time you try to use the connection or reboot. Even if the essid is broadcast you still need to reenter the wep key. Why is there not a way to save the info?
This is just not true. I'm using both nm-applet and kNetworkmanager (GNOME and KDE NetworkManager frontends) with my WPA2, non-broadcasting wifi network at home and it's working great! The keys are being stored in kWallet or the gnome-keyring.
For those that do not use kWallet it does -not- store the info and requires you to reenter the config each time you boot up.
So, what's keeping you from using kWallet or gnome-keyring, which both require a passphrase to be unlocked by default.
And using kWallet is -not- making it more secure as once the connection is made you can log out and the connection stays for the next person who logs in. Never had this issue with netgo. Maybe I'll go back to that.
Sorry, but that sounds like an artificial use-case to me. Regards Christoph