[Bug 883015] Re: After upgrade, all network settings are lost

[stel]

well after a lot of monkeying i found that one could import old
connections to new network manager. this can be automated with a script
but for now here's the most basic method.

1. copy connection files from .kde/share/apps/networkmanagement/connections to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
2. edit any of these files and modify the following.
3. in [connection] section delete the '{' and '}' from the uuid value.
4. in the [ipv4] section change method=Automatic to method=auto.

that's it. now manage connections will show this entry and also rename
the file to whatever the id= value is. i like that change but i have to
say there doesn't seem to be a good reason to make these changes that
break things or at least not migrate them. the rest of the parameters
don't seem to matter enough but you can clean up if you like. create a
new one to use as a template. i've not tested wireless connections with
security but here's what you do to make them show up in manage
connections.

in [802-11-wireless-security] section change keymgmt=WPAPSK to key-mgmt
=wpa-psk.

really bad that passwords (shared key) appear in plaintext as psk=xxx. i
also don't see an entry in kwallet even though network manager asked me
to open the wallet. i hope someone comes up with something better. as a
result i'm skeptical that just making the above changes and not entering
a password in the file will work. i'm not somewhere i can test this now.

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