<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Orr Dunkelman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orr.dunkelman@gmail.com">orr.dunkelman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Ohad Lutzky <<a href="mailto:ohad@lutzky.net">ohad@lutzky.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I also have my personal technical question, which you may be able to help<br>
>> in. I use Linux on a wireless home network, and I would like to do a couple<br>
>> of wireless network mounts, prior to any login screens. Any ideas on how I<br>
>> convince the computer to connect to the wireless before I logon?<br>
><br>
> I'm not sure how to resolve this issue, but I can clarify the cause:<br>
> WPA keys are stored within your user accounts, and are decrypted only<br>
> when you log in. This may have changed in more recent versions of<br>
> NetworkManager, such as the one installed in Ubuntu 8.10, but I'm not<br>
> sure.<br>
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</div>8.10 does the same.</blockquote><div><br>Actually it doesn't. As I wrote yesterday, in 8.10 you can choose to save any WPA key as a "System Settings". This way NetworkManager will use it even before logging in. I've successfully tried it on my home network.<br>
<br>Haggai<br> </div></div><br></div>