Network Manager (Linux)

Thanks to all the good advice on this board, I now have the later network manager installed. "Networkmanager Applet 0.7.0" (using the method shown in blue & green below).

Overall, this seems to be an improvement on the previous version, especially after following the advice on the board to stop it losing the network manager after going into "sleep" mode: http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=2620&start=110

One final item to be resolved:
Has anyone figured out how to get this to remember the network password & settings after restarting?
I don't know much about Linux, so please keep any advice simple. Thanks.

System: A150, Linux, Original Atheros card, BIOS 3309

 

The 3rd post down on this page worked for me:-
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1395&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

What I would like now is a shortcut (and preferably a nice icon) in the Settings window to replace the redundant Network Centre.

 

Thank you.

I tried that. Found the passwd file, opened it typed in the text & then when trying to save, it gives an error message "Can't open file to write".

 

Aha,
If you are using mousepad or vi to edit the file then you need to put sudo before the command e.g.

sudo mousepad passwd

then you will be able to save your alteration.

 

Thanks, but this still baffles me. I type that in the Terminal Window & then passwd opens, with a red warning message stating "Warning you are using the root account, you may harm your system". I have no idea how to get past that barrier.

 

Ignore it and do the editing, it is after all only a warning not a restriction. However it is a warning that you should be
careful not to mess with anything else. I and many others have done this small edit and if that is all you do then all
will be ok.

 

The damn thing just has the warning visible, with no sign of the script I want to edit anywhere. I would ignore the warning if I could figure out how to.

 

Once again apologies...
try
sudo mousepad /etc/pam.d/passwd

which is the path of the file as given in the original post I referred you to

 

Toh-Maag, thanks for the help.
This time it's updated the contents of the file, but sadly I still need to re-enter the password after a reboot.

Still, my wifi's performing much better than it did on the last holiday. So far have managed to get a connection everywhere. So maybe the BIOS update &/or networkmanager changes have done the trick.

 

There are a lot of posts in the thread below but I tried the one by jonglee and it worked for me
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1395&start=30#p22308

you have to remember to go to the directory (folder) mentioned and type
sudo mousepad xinitrc

and just remove the one word sudo from the file as shown in the example.
Be very careful not to do anything else in that file as it is very important.