On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 10:23 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > 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?
Yeah, only later did I notice a line in my /var/log/messages from wpa_supplicant saying that -Dndiswrapper has been deprecated in favor of -Dwext. It turns out that sometimes I can associate and get my connection working. So the problem becomes one that I've had with before, on different hardware: with some networks, association intermittently times out in Stage 2 of the connection process. After doing some digging, I'm pretty sure that the issue in such situations is that you can (barely) receive packets from the base station, but that it can't receive packets from the weaker antenna on your wifi card. In the general Stage 2 timeout case, NM doesn't have much information to go on, but some kind of notification saying what the likely problem is would be very helpful, IMHO. Peter -- Peter Williams / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
