Why Are "Identical" Systems Different? (RESOLVED)

[John Graddy]

The problem was evidently that Network Manager did not have access to
the Keyring.  When I authorized Keyring access, NM starts the wireless
network automatically.

Thanks to Andrew Farris.  Andrew, the last line in your email contained
( provided the auth info matches :).  That led me to the Keyring
problem.  Thanks.

John  



On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 05:33 -0500, Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 13:26 -0500, John Graddy wrote:
> [snip]
> > When I tried this, I found that one system (the one without the built in
> > LAN interface) had a System->Admin->Network entry and the other system
> > does not have such an entry.
> > 
> > I have two questions.  One is why do I have different System->Admin
> > menus and the second is how do I get an automatic wireless network
> > connection.
> 
>      1. If you updated from an older version of ubuntu, you might still
>         have a 'Network' option under "System > Administration", but
>         honestly, I think that's been gone since like...Ubuntu 6.10. It
>         couldn't also been auto-added from installing some other
>         networking software, etc...
>      2. Right click on network-manager in your panel ( the little 2
>         computers icon, or sometimes a wireless signal indicator ) and
>         go to "Edit Connections" then the "wireless" tab. From there you
>         can manually set up/add wireless networks.  Though if you just
>         connect to the network you want once, NM is _supposed_ to store
>         the connection for you, and 'remember' it next time the wireless
>         ssid is found ( provided the auth info matches :) )
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> -- 
> Andrew
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