CentOS - Mar 2010 - NetworkManager trouble with CentOS 5.4 and KDE3

I'm evaluating CentOS 5.4 for our company and one of our requirements is 
that it must also run on laptops. I've managed to get everything working 
so far except for wireless networks. The problem here seems to be that 
CentOS fails to provide a knetworkmanager package, and we're using KDE3 
for various reasons. Thus, we're limited to Networkmanager-gnome which 
works but fails to save passwords in KDE3 and only works in Gnome. Of 
course kwallet is installed but requires knetworkmanager to work. The 
only solution I found so far was to log into Gnome, connect to the 
wireless network and save the password but that's certainly NOT an opion.

I guess the question is quite simple: how do I get NetworkManager to save 
passwords in KDE3? It's a critical issue and switching to Gnome is not an 
option either. Infact it's Novell's decision to ditch KDE3 and focus on 
KDE4 instead that made us turn our backs on openSUSE in the first place.

So, is it possible to solve this teeny-tiny problem some other way?

Thanks in advance,
Martin

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Martin Jungowski wrote:
> I'm evaluating CentOS 5.4 for our company and one of our requirements
is
> that it must also run on laptops. I've managed to get everything
working
> so far except for wireless networks. The problem here seems to be that 
> CentOS fails to provide a knetworkmanager package, and we're using KDE3
> for various reasons. Thus, we're limited to Networkmanager-gnome which 
> works but fails to save passwords in KDE3 and only works in Gnome. Of 
> course kwallet is installed but requires knetworkmanager to work. The 
> only solution I found so far was to log into Gnome, connect to the 
> wireless network and save the password but that's certainly NOT an
opion.
>
> I guess the question is quite simple: how do I get NetworkManager to save 
> passwords in KDE3? It's a critical issue and switching to Gnome is not
an
> option either. Infact it's Novell's decision to ditch KDE3 and
focus on
> KDE4 instead that made us turn our backs on openSUSE in the first place.
>
> So, is it possible to solve this teeny-tiny problem some other way?
>
>   
There was a thread, "NetworkManager won't save wireless keys", on
this
list on January 14, 2010.  I don't know if it was your problem exactly.  
If you don't have the thread and would like it let me know & I will 
forward it to you.
rkw
> Thanks in advance,
> Martin
>
>   

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Martin Jungowski wrote:
> I'm evaluating CentOS 5.4 for our company and one of our requirements
is
> that it must also run on laptops. I've managed to get everything
working
> so far except for wireless networks. The problem here seems to be that
> CentOS fails to provide a knetworkmanager package, and we're using KDE3
> for various reasons. Thus, we're limited to Networkmanager-gnome which
> works but fails to save passwords in KDE3 and only works in Gnome. Of
> course kwallet is installed but requires knetworkmanager to work. The
> only solution I found so far was to log into Gnome, connect to the
> wireless network and save the password but that's certainly NOT an
opion.
> 
> I guess the question is quite simple: how do I get NetworkManager to save
> passwords in KDE3?
It's a gnome-keyring bug, only even recently fixed in fedora,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/453880

In particular,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453880#c38
for a workaround.

-- Rex