Fedora 8 problem fixes including wireless , wpa_supplicant, keyring

Fedora 7,8: Intel 915GM video cards work. (Just in case people are trying to look things up like I usually do to see before hand if things will work with certain systems.)

Fedora 8: WPA client.

Turn on Network manager, network dispatcher and wpa_supplicant.

(You actually should only need to turn on Network Manager and then it'll automatically call the other ones.)

If you use a WPA network. In network adminstration, turn off starting wireless at start up. It will take you awful long at boot to let the wireless fail because it doesn't have the password! It'll start by itself when it access the desktop anway. So you don't have to choose to activate it in network administration.

To fix the keyring asking for password prolem, set your keyring password the same as your login password. (Otherwise, you need to do something more complicated. But I hate complication.)

Type in command su then enter to enter administrator password. Run :yum install pam_keyring

Then gedit /etc/pam.d/gdm
My setting looks like this:

#%PAM-1.0
auth [success=done ignore=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux_permit.so
auth required pam_env.so
auth optional pam_keyring.so try_first_pass
auth include system-auth
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
account required pam_nologin.so
account include system-auth
password include system-auth
session required pam_selinux.so close
session include system-auth
session required pam_loginuid.so
session optional pam_console.so
session required pam_selinux.so open
session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session required pam_namespace.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
session optional pam_keyring.so

Copy the whole thing paste and save.
The next time the system restarts, it asks you something about allow applications to use keyring or not. Of course allow.

Warning: If you use a different version of Fedora or Linux, you have to be very careful with this. You might get authentication failed and will not be able to login.

For versions other than Fedora 8, you should just add these two lines :

auth optional pam_keyring.so try_first_pass
session optional pam_keyring.so

For KDE, I haven't tried out a working solution. The following may work.
The above editing definitely doesn't.

There's also some error with wpa_supplicant at startup, I didn't note down the exact message. Something like wpa_supplicant fail. /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf , dbus_bus_get file or directory doesn't exist. The fix is:

Login with administrator by typing su, enter, enter password. Go to /etc/rc5.d
There's a file named S(some number)wpa_supplicant.
The error message occurs because this service is started before network manager and other things start and get the wireless card ready. So the solution is to make wpa start later.

mv S(your number)wpa_supplicant S(some big number, use two digis because everything in my computer is 2 digit)wpa_supplicant. Then it'll start just fine.


Installing XFCE makes Fedora work much faster than KDE or GNOME. You may have the following problems:

No audio. Fix: try to check and uncheck something like "use ALSA sound driver" in audio and sound card settings. One should work for you.

Pidgin. Sometimes the software doesn't show your buddies and I haven't found any solution to that. It's a bug and we can't beat it.

If you have problems with Mplayer, see here.




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