[Sugar-devel] How to disable "Authentication Required By Wireless Network" popup in Fedora 17

Anish Mangal anish at sugarlabs.org
Fri Jun 22 01:30:30 EDT 2012


OLPC regularly releases (and announces on the olpc-devel mailing list)
development images on download.laptop.org

I think the release candidate version of their f17/0.96 builds is
available here:
http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/

Hope this helps.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> (Sorry if I am asking a very stupid question)
>
> Is there a link of an image (in ".img" + ".crc" format, for XO-1), that is
> based on F17, and contains sugar with NM 0.9?
> I tried at http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/, but apparently could not
> find anything useful.
>
> Alternatively, a OS builder for the same end-results would also be good.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Ajay
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:23 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:29:37PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > ajay wrote:
>>> >> >  > Hi Paul.
>>> >> >  >
>>> >> >  > Well, I am doing development on sugar-jhbuild F17.
>>> >> >  >
>>> >> >  > So, after I launch sugar-emulator, I wish to have the sugar
>>> >> >  > network-authentication popup pop up (if at all), and not the
>>> >> > gnome
>>> >> > one.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > ah.  sugar vs.  gnome.  now that i understand your problem, i find i
>>> >> > can be of no help whatsoever.  sorry!
>>> >>
>>> >> Indeed, I have no idea either.  Running GNOME at the same time as
>>> >> Sugar means NetworkManager might behave differently, as it has
>>> >> multiple clients.  So I never wanted to try that.  Because it would
>>> >> not be representative of the typical usage.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Exactly !!!!
>>>
>>> This functionality was just introduced in F17, NetworkManager 0.9.x.
>>> Previously you could only have one client connected to the
>>> NetworkManager daemon at a time.  Now the behavior has changed
>>> to make it work better with fast-user-switching.
>>>
>>> This new connection sharing also causes secrets to be handled
>>> differently.  Previously everything was stored in your gnome-keyring,
>>> now by default secrets are stored at the system level.  A client
>>> can register to be a secrets provider however I don't know if this has
>>> been implemented in sugar yet.
>>>
>>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> When I was last testing Sugar and NetworkManager interaction, I did it
>>> >> on a system, such as an XO, without GNOME running.  I edited the
>>> >> source files live and restarted Sugar to see the changes.  When I had
>>> >> finished, I copied my changes out of the target and into git using
>>> >> ssh.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Well, that would indeed work. Thanks for the idea .. :D :D
>>>
>>> I may have more information about this this weekend.  I currently
>>> have an unstable network connection and the NetworkManager
>>> password popups are annoying me.  If I find anything interesting
>>> I will update everyone.
>>
>>
>>
>> Waiting for anything interesting, whole heartedly !! :)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ajay
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Jon
>>
>>
>
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