Package: network-manager Version: 0.6.4-8 When using a madwifi-based wireless card (with driver built from madwifi-source 0.9.3-3 in sid), it is currently impossible to associate to any access point using NetworkManager. NetworkManager will see the access points, but upon attempting to associate, the lights in nm-applet never turn green and it eventually gives up. The card works fine when configured manually (without using NetworkManager). My system is an up-to-date Debian sid/i386 installation using kernel 2.6.22-1 (from sid) and libc6 2.6-3.
This seems somewhat related to the wpa_supplicant settings used by network-manager, as Ubuntu's network-manager has patches which specifically use wpa_supplicant's "madwifi" driver as opposed to its "wext" driver. In Ubuntu's case, NetworkManager works flawlessly on the same machine, and installing the Ubuntu network-manager package makes it work on Debian (though that setup has other difficulties due to the problems mixing Debian/Ubuntu packages). Could a fix such as the one used in Ubuntu's case be investigated? The patch is part of the (big) network-manager patch on patches.ubuntu.com. This issue is somewhat of a show-stopper in my case...