My recent, easy and successful upgrade from 12.1 to 12.2, on HPDV7 laptop reminds me again to figure out how to NOT lose my acquired WiFi connections.
Too late for this time, I assume, but 12.3 will come soon enough.
I use KDE and Network Manager.
By hacking about I find that Network Manager saves learned connections in
pwd
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
carl@HPDV7-Linux:/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections> ll
total 4
-rw------- 1 root root 315 Nov 3 18:10 Cape_WiFi
carl@HPDV7-Linux:/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections>
So task for next time will be to copy the contents of this directory to a temporary location on /home, then copy it back after / is formatted and upgraded.
I have been unable to find where Kwallet saves its wallet files, which included the WiFi connection passcodes.
Can someone point me in a direction on the topic: retaining Kwallet files during upgrade?
On 2012-11-04 14:56, cmcgrath5035 wrote:
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> My recent, easy and successful upgrade from 12.1 to 12.2, on HPDV7
> laptop reminds me again to figure out how to NOT lose my acquired WiFi
> connections.
Yes, the same here for laptop. On desktop, I use “ifup” settings.
I have been backing up that directory, then restoring. It works great.
If you set all of your connections to be system connections, then there will be nothing of importance in kwallet. It is only for the non-system-connections that the key is saved in kwallet.
I’m pretty sure that kwallet saves its date in “$HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kwallet”. There might also be data saved by the networkmanager plasmoid, that is needed for non-system-connections.
Thanks! I was not aware of the System Connection designation effect here.
And yes, the wallet is in “$HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl”
So now I have to figure out why Dolphin Find did not find “*.kwl”
Carlos
Some confusion on my part, and perhaps others.
The links you provided (Good ones, to be sure) result in an update.
Seems in much of what I have been reading suggests doing a Fresh install of root (/), preserving /home which is on a separate partition.
I’ll go back to the update method.
> Carlos
> Some confusion on my part, and perhaps others.
> The links you provided (Good ones, to be sure) result in an update.
No, an upgrade, a system upgrade. That’s the name.
> Seems in much of what I have been reading suggests doing a Fresh
> install of root (/), preserving /home which is on a separate partition.
> I’ll go back to the update method.
It is your choice, fresh install (keeping home) or upgrade. A system
upgrade keeps all configurations and data, home or otherwise.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))