[ale] Fiesty Fawn fumbling under wireless

Tom Freeman tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Sat Apr 28 23:02:38 EDT 2007


Brian -

Deleting the keyring subdirectory worked just wonderfully!  
Thanks so much for the clue. Things seem to be running just  
wonderfully now!

(Now to wander off and create some other mess to fix,  
thereby learning something else 8-))

On 04/28/2007 06:31:35 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
> >
> > I put Ubuntu 7.04 on my ThinkPad laptop, and I pretty
> much have everything
> > working except for a bit of weirdness under wireless.
> When the
> > network-manager attempts to connect to my Linksys travel
> router/wireless
> > AP, everything is going smooth until the network-manager
> wants to save the
> > password to the keyring. I have never set up a keyring
> password, and
> > haven't found a clue as to a default password might be.
> Any ideas where to
> > look or work arounds so this thing will "just work"?
> >
> > FWIW, the keyring manager _is_ installed, I just have
> not found how to get
> > in.
> 
> The first time the keyring is ever used by an application,
> GNOME asks
> you to set a keyring password. Perhaps you did this
> without realizing
> it? If you can't guess the password, perhaps
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-keyring/+bug/54792 will
> point you
> towards a tool that can change the password. Failing that,
> you can
> delete the contents of ~/.gnome2/keyrings
> 
> -Brian
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