[PLUG] WiFi Locked -- XFCE on Slackware

King Beowulf kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Tue Dec 25 09:16:15 UTC 2018


On 12/24/18 9:51 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> Over the last few days I've had the laptop in my office plugged in via
> an Ethernet cable. Sometime during that fussing I switched from KDE to
> XFCE. I've got enough working on it that I took it downstairs where I
> connect with WiFi. When I try, I see that my router's connection is
> locked (shows a closed padlock). It doesn't matter if I'm logged in as a
> normal user (if one can consider me normal) or if I'm logged in as root.
> Switching to KDE, I am able to connect as a normal user.
> 
> Is there someplace in XFCE that I need to do something to give it access
> to WiFi?
> 

Network Manager (NM) can be fussy when switching DEs.  Did you try a
clean reboot going directly into Xfce?

the padlock just means the connection needs the wifi password/key. KDE
saved the the key in its wallet (if enabled, or with NM) and Xfce can't
find it - it uses a different method to store passwords (gnome keyring
if enabled or in NM config files).  When you click on the wifi systray
icon in Xfce, then on your SSID, does a password box pop up? If so,
enter it, or set up the keyring if asked.  If not, right-click on the
wifi icon and select "edit connections". In the Window that pops up,
either edit your existing SSID to add the missing information, or create
a new one with the appropriate wifi parameters.



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