Simon Royal wrote:

When I boot up I get faced with a keyring password request box. It is to do with Network Manager or nm-applet. It appears because my ThinkPad automatically connects to my wireless network which is WPA protected.

However, I cannot find out how to stop this box coming up. I need some kind of auto authentication to stop it asking everytime I boot.

You haven't by chance set up anything so that the laptop logs into the desktop as a specific user automatically rather than going to a login prompt. I have had problems with the keyring manager when doing that, and I think the only way I could fix it (assuming you want the machine to autologin like that) is to set a blank passphrase on the Login key, which is far from ideal and even less so if you aren't going to ask for authentication to start the desktop.

You could install/run seahorse (I presume that is what it is using) and have a look and check the wireless key is saved under the Passwords: Login section.

One other solution would be to ditch network manager and set up your wireless manually, but that isn't so much help if you intend to roam networks with the laptop as then really network manager is one of the better options.