Guys, I think I've found a solution, thanks to Darren. If you have been
having issues connecting to wireless networks, even though they are
listed, then this could be the answer!

Compile from scratch, and don't use the one provided in the repositories.
If this works, I'll post a bug report.

On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:26:29 -0400, Darren Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I am confused, you said you were running Network-Manager from Ubuntu,
> so you compiled Network-Manager from source already?  You said
> Sourceforge but network-manager is hosted at gnome.org:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager/0.6/
>
> On 8/6/06, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I already did this. I have compiled from scratch. Straight from
>> sourceforge.net
>>
>> On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:13:38 -0400, Darren Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I had similar problems when I used the latest madwifi drivers.  I
>> > /think/ it had something to do with the workarounds patch applied to
>> > the version of Network-Manager in Ubuntu.  The madwifi drivers shipped
>> > with Ubuntu are older and did not support the latest WEXT so a
>> > work-around had to be applied to Network-Manager.  I think this
>> > workaround causes problems with the newer version of Madwifi that does
>> > support WEXT.
>> >
>> > Your best bet would be to remove the package from Ubuntu and compile
>> > Network-Manager from source, the ubuntuforums howto section has a good
>> > walkthrough on this.  There is also a problem with the way the madwifi
>> > drivers report their signal strength, a workaround was posted by
>> > Robert Love around 6 months ago (This workaround is included in the
>> > Ubuntu package), you should probably apply that patch.  If you can't
>> > find that patch post here and I will dig it up for you.
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> > [email protected]
>> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> From,
>> Jacob
>>



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From,
Jacob
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