[kde-linux] Fedora 17 KDE 4.6.4 wireless setup

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 02:18:49 AM Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
> Jerome Yuzyk posted on Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:18:34 -0600 as excerpted:
> > Oops, should be 4.8.4.
> > 
> > On Monday, July 09, 2012 11:45:47 PM Jerome Yuzyk
> > <jerome at supernet.ab.ca>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> So how am I supposed to use the KDE Network Settings to add a wireles
> >> connection when I keep being told "Insufficient Privileges" when I
> >> try to save my changes?
> >> 
> >> And how can I turn off the popup notification that comes along a few
> >> seconds after to remind me?
> 
> I think what you're looking for is likely to be the policykit (polkit)
> setup, in kde settings, under system administration.  Do note that if
> you're not setup with basic admin privs for your user, you may need to
> login as root and setup your user with admin privs before you can adjust
> the privs as your user in that section.

Funny, It Just Worked in F16, and now in F17 it doesn't. I eventually went 
under the hood into the config files and found a setting that limited 
wireless to root - where'd that come from?

My fault for messing with a perfectly-good (in hindsight) F16 install, and 
trusting preupgrade to make something good of the transition since my old 
yum update way had strong recommendations against it for F17's change to 
/usr. 

It looks like a number of KDE Settngs things don't call ksudo or whatever 
at the right time to get the right permissions, and I suppose that's a 
result of the other F17 changes. 

It's making KUbuntu look pretty attractive.