Package: network-manager-gnome Followup-For: Bug #387851 The madwifi driver was made more picky about receiving bad packets; many home routers have bad firmware that generates slightly bogus packet headers during association. The latest version (0.9.3) of the madwifi driver is supposed to be less picky & contain some workarounds, but it's not quite in debian yet. But be sure you also check your router firmware for upgrades: I updated my netgear router at home this past weekend and suddenly network-manager worked fine with it.
However, network-manager is still having trouble at work (MIT), with two different wireless networks -- the general MIT one (essid MIT) and the one in my building (essid StataCenter). I assume that their firmwares are appropriately updated, although I can't be certain. The other thing the two networks seem to have in common is that they both involve multiple access points: I can always see more than one router for the same essid (I forget the technical name for this setup). Looking at iwconfig while network manager does its thing, it seems that network-manager is forcing an AP MAC as well as an ESSID; is it possible that network-manager is choosing the wrong AP MAC (say, one that's really too far away), causing the problems? --scott -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on: ii gnome-icon-theme 2.14.2-3 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libavahi-client3 0.6.16-5 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.16-5 Avahi common library ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.16-5 Avahi glib integration library ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-4 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-6 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.16.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.3-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-4 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.6-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.6.0-3 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.16.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.14.2-7 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.4-2 library for common error values an ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-7 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal1 0.5.8.1-9 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libnm-util0 0.6.4-7 network management framework (shar ii libnotify1 0.4.4-1 sends desktop notifications to a n ii liborbit2 1:2.14.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.14.3-5 library for GNOME 2 panel applets ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libtasn1-3 0.3.6-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-6 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-5 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii network-manager 0.6.4-7 network management framework daemo ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends: ii libpam-keyring 0.0.8-6 PAM module that unlock gnome keyri pn network-manager-openvpn <none> (no description available) pn network-manager-vpnc <none> (no description available) ii notification-daemon 0.3.7-1 a daemon that displays passive pop -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]