Network Manager and Wireless

I have a Broadcom 1390 mini wireless on a Compaq v3000 series laptop with AMD Turion64 processor.
I have been trying to activate it for some time now. bcm43xx did not work. i compiled ndiswrapper, blacklisted bcm43xx and managed to get wireless detected. I used wifi-radar to connect, but strangely the gnome network applet and wireless network manager showed as no network though wireless was connected and working. I had enabled wlan0 in rc.conf and all details entered as per the wiki.
I removed networkmanager from rc.conf daemons and added network. Now wireless connects at boot without a hitch. No need for wifi-radar. This is after so many reboots that this occurred to me, so I thought i should share this and perhaps find out if there is something wrong in my approach. I am new to Arch (about a few months) though I have been with Ubuntu, CentOS etc for a few years now

Coinago:
Your enc idea did not work...
How does one enter WEP key 10 digit hexadecimal in rc.conf etc. I tried it straight, then XXXX-XXXX-XX both as key and as enc. It did not work. Do I have to insert an "=" somewhere. I am a bit at sea. I got the wireless going thru wifi-radar. I use gnome, no KDE for me.
I would like to crack this so i have wireless at boot in my office. It was working fine with entries in rc.conf when there was no key. So it is obviously about entering the WEP key in the right format and place..

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I dont have a problem with this I just would like to know where network manager stores the config files that contain the SSIDs.
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[SOLVED] Network manager only works as root

Hello everyone,
I am brand new to arch and have been quite impressed over the past few days over all it has to offer. Everything has been running quite smoothly and I am now in the process of setting up wireless. I installed network manager and was able to connect to a wireless network as root. For my regular user, however, I am running into some issues. First one was that the nm-applet could not be opened in fluxbox. I received the following error:
** (nm-applet:1576): WARNING **: <WARN> request_name(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service.
Error: (9) Connection ":1.27" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file
I "fixed" this by adding the following to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf. Original credit goes to the user in this thread (I only slightly modified his code): https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=63576

<policy user="myusername">
<allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings"/>
<deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSetting.Secrets"/>
</policy>

Now the applet shows up for my regular user, the problem being that it doesn't connect to the wireless networks (only wired). Whenever I try to connect to wireless, nothing happens (the symbol doesn't change in any way, i.e. the green spheres should start circling); I am still able to succesfully connect to wireless using root. Does anyone know what the source of this issue may be? Thank you very much in advance.
Last edited by Ipozya (2011-01-20 04:49:55)

Solved: Had to install consolekit and add "ck-launch-session" to my .xinitrc file when starting fluxbox.
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Last edited by Ipozya (2011-01-20 04:54:20)

[SOLVED] Network Manager with iPhone 3G S

OK, so work got me a shiny new iPhone 3G S today. When I'm being paid to play with it, I'll give it a shot
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Also (I know someone wants to mention this), I am already aware that bluetooth is going to be speed limiting, but this connection will generally only be used for SSH sessions back to the office, so I don't really care about that. I'm happy to use bluetooth to reduce the number of cables required - already have external mouse, external hard drive, power supply and serial cable when I'm at a client site, I don't really want a USB cable to the iPhone as well. Unless Network Manager can't do this over bluetooth, but it can over USB, then I'll concede on the extra cable.
Last edited by fukawi2 (2009-10-01 02:38:02)

Here's instructions for Ubuntu, I doubt there will be many discrepancies between Ubuntu and Arch though. Just translate the apt-get crap with the appropriate yaourt or pacman command.
http://undulynoted.net/2009/06/tether-i … -required/
Ubuntu:
Why oh why does apple hardware suck so hard with linux. You will get constant disconnects if your phone is more than a few feet away from the computer. But alas, it is still faster than pdanet or iphonemodem2.
If you are not on a mac congratulations, you have had fewer headaches.
Open the terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install blueman bluez-compat
This will remove wcid which hopefully isn't a problem for most of you.
It will ask you to restart, please do.
Once Ubuntu is back up click on your bluetooth icon in the upper right (which is now managed by blueman)
IMPORTANT: Right click on the bluetooth icon and choose local services. Make sure to click the radio box that says "Network manager" instead of "blueman" under the network pane. This will allow Network Manager to take over the controlling of your connection (which is good). REBOOT AFTER THIS STEP!
Go to the bluetooth settings in your iphone (Settings > General > Bluetooth) and make sure they are on.
Hit the search button in blueman and you should see your iphone after a few seconds.
WARNING: This is where it gets flaky on the macbook pro. Best results I have has is to highlight the phone in blueman and hit "Bond"
Choose to auto generate a pass on the next option. Next. Now wait for the iPhone to ask you to type in the passphrase. Type in the 4 digit one that blueman gives you. VERY IMPORTANT. While they are joining eachother keep you eye on the computer. It will ask you if you always want to trust the iPhone (device name). Hit Always or else you will have trouble.
Always initiate the connection from the iPhone. In the bluetooth settings on the iphone you will now see your computer name listed and the words "not conencted" next to it. Click it. Wait a few and it will hopefully say connected. Look back to blueman and you will now see status bars on the iphone. Right click on your iphone in blueman. Choose "Setup". Network access point is click by default so just hit "Next".
Now head over to Network Manager and you should see "Auto benp0″. Click it to connect and give it a few to generate an IP. DONE enjoy surfing the internet through your data plan without jailbreaking. I have noticed quite a few speed gains over pdanet. Also, i noticed I got better results when i used openDNS's servers (208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222).
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[SOLVED] Network Manager / nm-applet problems on fresh installation

I have just carried out a fresh re-installation of Arch on my old netbook, following a self-inflicted crash!
Previously, networking worked perfectly, but since the new installation, nm-applet is behaving strangely.
All connections (wired and wireless) seem to work OK, but when connected wirelessly, the nm-applet constantly shows the "searching" icon, and hovering over it, the message "Requesting a Wi-Fi network address for '<wlan name>'" is displayed. The Network Connections screen says that the Wi-Fi connections has never been used, despite the fact that it works!
I have tried re-configuring the connections, disabling IPV6 (this stops everything working) and completely uninstalling/re-installing Network Manager and nm-applet, but all without success.
I would be very grateful fo any ideas of how to tackle this problem
Many thanks in advance.
Last edited by myrlin (2014-08-20 19:42:44)

I have fixed the wpa_supplicant problem (changed the .conf file), but the problem still persists. I have even carried out a full re-installation in case I did something stupid.
Nnmtui shows "connecting" permanently, and nm-applet shows "Requesting a Wi-Fi network address for '<wlan name>'" with the cycling connecting icon.
Despite this, the wireless connection seems to work!
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Network Manager Applet Cannot Edit Options/Connections As Normal User

Today I installed Network Manager, and Network Manager Applet in XFCE as a normal user. I followed the instructions on the Arch Network Manager Wiki to the best of my knowlage. The NM-Applet connects to my ethernet, and everything is fine. Untill that is, when I right click the NM Applet.
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Clicking Add brings up the 'Add New Connection Window', but again everything is greyed out. 'Available To All Users' is checked, but is greyed out also. But, starting XFCE as root, allows me to use the NM Applet with no restrictions, AKA none of the greyed out options. Everything works fine.This is my second day using Arch, so I am not sure where to go now.
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My Current Normal User Groups wrote: disk lp wheel uucp games network video audio optical storage scanner power users
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# /etc/rc.conf - configuration file for initscripts
# Most of rc.conf has been replaced by various other configuration
# files. See archlinux(7) for details.
# For more details on rc.conf see rc.conf(5).
DAEMONS=(alsa dbus syslog-ng crond ifplugd networkmanager bluetooth avahi-daemon acahi-dnsconfd avahi-dnsconfd fa$
# Storage
# USEDMRAID="no"
# USELVM="no"
# Network
# interface=eth0
# address=
# netmask=
# gateway=
My /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla wrote:Identity=unix-group:network
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
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ResultInactive=no
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Last edited by TriforceLZG (2012-09-02 13:43:23)

I found the solution, I had to install a Display Manager. Now everything is fine.

Where does Network Manager get its "secrets?"

I am experimenting with PEAP authentication on a wireless network via Network Manager, and in the NM logs (journalctl -u NetworkManager), I keep seeing a line like this one:
Sep 11 10:56:26 anchor NetworkManager[1300]: <info> Activation (wlp2s0/wireless): connection 'foo' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
In this case, I have mangled the network's settings in a way where it shouldn't be able to connect, and to the best of my knowledge, there are cached "secrets" that is still allowing NM to connect to the network. I would like to manage these secrets somehow, or flush them at the very least. How would I go about this?

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Hello guys..
this my first question for me at Cisco support forums..
I have couple of questions and I would like to get your views and answers..
Suppose that I am administrator of a university, and I created an excellent design for my network.
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does anyone have idea about how Cisco nac works??

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and that requires planning....
alot...
and lab tests first before entering production.
In a network with approx 1000 users you will definitely need a few monitoring tools. For security , really study NAC concepts and ISE. Keep in mind , the more users you have, the longer it takes to implement ISE, but if you have that going, you have the network on lockdown at your fingertips.
Please rate if you find helpfull
Let me know if you have more questions
Isak

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