On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:51:47 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:10 +0000, Sam Morris wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:46:50 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: >> > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:19 +0000, Sam Morris wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 20:29 -0500, Darren Albers wrote: >> >> > While I am not an expert I do see a lot of strange messages and it >> >> > doesn't look like the card is even able to associate: >> >> > Dec 4 19:04:20 xerces NetworkManager: >> >> > <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(2730): wpa_driver_wext_associate >> >> > Dec 4 19:04:20 xerces NetworkManager: >> >> > <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(2730): Association request to the driver >> >> > failed >> >> > >> >> > Two questions: >> >> > 1) Can you associate by stopping NetworkManager and bringing up >> >> > WPA_Supplicant manually? >> >> >> >> Yes. I therefore assume that the rt2x00 driver has some idiosyncrasies >> >> that prevent the commands that are issued by NM from working. >> > >> > Can you post the command that you use to execute wpa_supplicant? >> >> Sorry, I misread what you asked above. I meant that I am able to associate >> if I avoid NM and wpa_supplicant alltogether and do this: >> >> # ip link set up dev wlan0 >> # iwlist wlan0 scan >> # iwconfig wlan0 ssid morris1 >> # iwconfig wlan0 key $wep_key >> # iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:30:BD:FD:B7:87 >> >> I am also able to associate if I tell NM to connect to the network and >> then quickly issue just the 'iwconfig ap' command above. > > This tells me that the driver has problems finding the correct AP to > associate with from its internal scan list and smells like a driver > bug...
Ok... I also posted to the rt2x00 forums. The topic is at <http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2586>. One of the driver developers said, "The logs indicate that the NM is attempting to connect to a device with MAC 00:00:00:00:00 which is quite wrong. This also happens with wpa_supplicant so I assume it is a incompatibility between wpa_supplicant and dscape stack" (I'm using wpa_supplicant 0.5.6). -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
