On 2/5/07, Paolo Casaschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried installing network-manager (with gnome applet) on Ubuntu Edgy 
> (version in the repos, just did apt-get).
>
> My wireless card is a Linksys WPC54Gv5 (Marvell chipset) using ndiswrapper 
> (again version from the repos).
>
> While with other wifi managers (such as wifi-radar) everything works fine and 
> I can connect to my access point using WAP, if I try network-manager I cant 
> get a connection.
>
> If I try connecting to my access point, I get the popup window asking for the 
> WAP key, but then the conneciton fails.
> The log at some point shows a warning like: "can't monitor the supplicant", 
> then not much else until it fails connecting.
>
> Anything that should be done because of that error message?
> It looks like wpa_supplicant is not invoked with the correct options? Or the 
> card does not support the functionality required by network-manager?
>
> What I noticed is that with wifi-radar it takes quite a long time for the 
> connection to be established.
> I wonder if there is a way to let network-manager wait a bit longer for the 
> connection to be established, before just giving up...
>
> Any help appreciated,
>

I don't see much information about the Marvell Chipsets, does it
support the latest Wireless Extensions?  When you setup WifiRadar do
you set it to use the WEXT driver?

Regarding the timeout I posted how to extend it here though this is
not recommended and the driver itself should be fixed over extending
the timeout in NM:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.networkmanager.devel/5697
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