Dear mailing list, I have some question about (K)NetworkManager on OpenSuSE 10.1. Since I didn't find much and useful documentation of (K)NetworkManager anywhere, I post them here: 1) What exactly is the use of the NM_ONLINE_TIMEOUT setting in /etc/sysconfig/network/config? I ask because it does not work for me. I'm using KDE and the KNetworkManager GUI. When my laptop is booting even though the setting is set to 20 or 30 there still is no wireless connection available when KDE has finished loading. I have a guess why: Because KNetworkManager is using KWallet to store the WPA key, it won't start to connect to my wireless network as long as the KWallet has not been opened (=the KWallet master password has been entered by me). But then again I question the NM_ONLINE_TIMEOUT setting. If my understanding of NetworkManager is correct, it's a daemon with network functionality (collecting available network devices and networks, connect to them) which needs to be controlled via another application (e.g. a NetworkManager GUI) via dbus. So if NetworkManager relies on other applications, why is there a NM_ONLINE_TIMEOUT setting? 2) Following up my last question: What do I have to do so that NM_ONLINE_TIMEOUT actually works? Do I have to store the connection information somewhere else, maybe in a global configuration file of NetworkManager? I want the wireless connection up and running when KDE loads so that Kopete, KMail and other networking applications don't complain every first time that they cannot connect to some server. Thanks for your help! -- Sincerely Sven Jacobs