On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:19 -0400, Peter Williams wrote: > Hi, > > (Please CC any replies to me as I'm not subscribed to the list.) > > I just got a Netgear WG311v3 PCI 802.11g card for my Fedora Core 5 > desktop. It apparently runs on a Marvell 88w8335 chipset. After doing some > research, I've installed ndiswrapper from Livna and configured the driver, > and that part seems to be fine. > > After making an FDI file to create a info.linux.driver HAL entry, I can > start NetworkManager and see the local networks. (Without that entry, NM > crashes -- a sanity check in nm_get_device_driver_name might be helpful.) > So I can at least scan for networks. However, if I try to connect to an > unencrypted network, NetworkManager times out in phase 2 of the connection > process: > > Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec > Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID) > Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=8 > Scan timeout - try to get results > Received 614 bytes of scan results (3 BSSes) > Scan results: 3 > Selecting BSS from priority group 0 > 0: 00:09:5b:48:27:90 ssid='wiremch' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1 > skip - no WPA/RSN IE > 1: 00:e0:98:f1:2c:67 ssid='wireless' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1 > skip - no WPA/RSN IE > 2: 00:09:5b:ea:71:d6 ssid='Govs' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1 > skip - no WPA/RSN IE > No suitable AP found. > Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec > Wireless event: cmd=0x8b2a len=8 > Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8 > Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8 > Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID) > Scan timeout - try to get results > ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Resource temporarily unavailable > Scan results: -1 > Failed to get scan results > Failed to get scan results - try scanning again > Setting scan request: 1 sec 0 usec > Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID) > Scan timeout - try to get results > ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Resource temporarily unavailable > Scan results: -1 > Failed to get scan results > Failed to get scan results - try scanning again > Setting scan request: 1 sec 0 usec > Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID) > > If I run NetworkManager --no-daemon I just see three of those SIOCGIWSCAN > warnings before NM gives up and reports a timeout. I've experimented with > connecting to the AP via command-line tools (iwconfig wlan0 essid wiremch) > without success, although I'm not sure exactly how to properly connect > that way. > > Any ideas of what the problem is or suggestions on how to figure out > what's going on? Help would be much appreciated.
Sounds an awful lot like the ndiswrapper driver is broken in some way; if you can't connect with (a) the command line tools from wireless-tools and (b) you can't connect with wpa_supplicant, then NM's not going to work. First, I'd try to figure out the scan problem; from a terminal, do you get scan results from "/sbin/iwlist <eth whatever> scan" consistently? I also hear that ndiswrapper has better WEXT support now too. Does wpa_supplicant not work with the -Dwext option at all? Dan > Thanks, > > Peter > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
