'Twas brillig, and Hugo Pereira Da Costa at 16/04/12 21:51 did gyre and gimble: > On 04/16/2012 10:14 PM, Mika Laitio wrote: >> I am always having problems for connecting to new access points with >> the drakconf. Drakconf is able to show up the list of access points just >> fine and also the config screen looks ok. >> >> Bu when I select the new ap from the list and press connect button, I >> usually get error message from the connection failure. >> This will happen even if I try to push the connect button again after >> the first failure. >> >> But if I instead reboot the machine after the failed connect, the >> network will be up just fine on next boot. >> I think the problem is not related to AP encryption mode as this is >> happening for me both with the OpenWEP and WPA/WPA2 connections. >> >> At the moment I am testing with machine having Intel Centrino-Ultimate-N >> 6300 wlan, but I have earlier seen similar problems at least with intel >> 2200 BG that I had on Dell D610. >> >> Mika > Hello, > just in case it helps: > > I've been having the same problems on several computers/installations > (and actually, also with mga1), and could always fix it by removing > (urpme) all networkmanager packages. My personal (naive and non-dev) > understanding of the issue being that there are some conflicts between > networkmanager and drakconnect.
There are, but provided you disable NM, it should be OK and not run... unless it can perhaps be bus activated without going via systemd... hmmm, I wonder... -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
