On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 07:36 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:14 -0500, Ryan Skadberg wrote: > >> Problem A: > >> > >> I was seeing these dbus errors: > >> > >> NetworkManager: <WARNING> nm_dbus_get_network_data_cb (): > >> nm_dbus_get_network_data_cb(): dbus returned an error. > >> (org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo.InvalidArguments) > >> nmi_dbus_get_network_properties called with invalid arguments. > >> > >> After playing around a bit, I realized these were being caused by all > >> the old APs in gconf. Once I erased them in gconf's > >> system/networking/wireless directory, these errors went away. May be > >> something to look in to, maybe we need to convert old APs? > > > > Ran into this issue the other day, it appears that earlier version > > didn't have the 'key_type' parameter, which we use to validate the > > entry. I'm not entirely sure how to proceed here, but it's not that > > hard of a problem. > > > >> Problem B: > >> > >> No connection to my AP. :( So, I tried doing a standard ifup and > >> then using NetworkManager and looked at the iwconfig output. When I > >> did this, I saw this with ifup: > > > > What distribution? Are you using NM from CVS? What wpa_supplicant > > version are you using? What card and driver again? Is it still the > > 3-year-old Linksys you mentioned from the "Activation too long" thread? > > > > There's an error in wpa_supplicant right now (though I've patched it in > > Fedora Core rawhide) that prevents wpa_supplicant from setting the > > correct auth mode on cards & drivers that don't support ENCODEEXT and > > AUTH extensions. This might be your problem. > > > > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/devel/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-auth-fallback-v3.patch > > Very interesting. I also had the problem, that I got this "Activation > took too long" messages, regardless how high I set the timeout. > I used the latest NM from CVS, the ipw2100 driver (kernel 2.6.16-rc2) > and wpa_supplicant-0.5.1. The wlan access point was a SMC 2804WBR. I > don't know exactly but I guess it is also something like three years > old. I couldn't get a connection with NM while running wpa_supplicant > directly it worked (although it sometimes takes very long >>1min). > With a newer access point NM works fine. > After reading your post I decided to apply this patch and test the old > access point again, and voila, it worked. > Dan, could this be a common problem of many older wlan access points? > And do you intend to send this patch for wpa_supplicant upstream?
I've sent it upstream, but Jouni was "thinking about it" for a bit. I'll ping him again and see what he says... Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
