I am fairly new to linux (couple of weeks) and am trying to make the transition from Windows. I have a problem with my wireless connection and am trying to work out what the cause is.
When I first boot up, I have no connectivity. At this stage network manager has wireless set to roaming. The settings for my network are set in nm-editor (i.e. right clicking the nm-applet icon and selecting 'Edit Wireless Networks'). I am using Ubuntu Hardy with ndiswrapper. If I open terminal and type 'iwlist wlan0 scan', I get, 'wlan0 No scan results'. However, if I open network admin (i.e. left click the nm-applet icon and select 'Manual configuration') and setup my network manually, it still will not connect. But now when I type 'iwlist wlan0 scan', it now see's my wireless network. I then change back to roaming which now connects automatically using the settings in nm-editor. Why do I have to disable then re-enable roaming every time before I get connectivity, and why will it not connect in manual mode? I have tried with and without an ndiswrapper entry in /etc/modules. I have checked to make sure there is an ndiswrapper alias in /etc/modprobe.d I have removed and reinstalled network-manager and nm-applet I tried to do a debug by typing 'sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop' but this file does not exist (possible problem here?) I have been reading through the howto's and wiki's but am not sure what I should be looking for. I did a check to see if the ndiswapper module was loaded at startup using lsmod ndiswrapper appears in the list, so I moved the alias file /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswapper to the /etc/modprobe.d/arch folder to make sure that the ndiswrapper module was being loaded by nm-applet using /etc/modules file. After a reboot lsmod This listed ndiswapper as being loaded. I went through the process of disabling and re-enabling roaming to get the network up and running and then checking output of tail /var/log/messages and got the following (I added notes after each process) Jul 27 00:18:45 paul-laptop kernel: [ 47.550561] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.28.0 20060524 on minor 0 Jul 27 00:18:46 paul-laptop kernel: [ 48.261188] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. Jul 27 00:18:46 paul-laptop kernel: [ 48.261217] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode Jul 27 00:18:46 paul-laptop kernel: [ 48.261257] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:05.0 into 4x mode Jul 27 00:18:47 paul-laptop kernel: [ 181.723641] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map Jul 27 00:18:47 paul-laptop kernel: [ 181.723720] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs Jul 27 00:19:09 paul-laptop kernel: [ 212.374552] NET: Registered protocol family 10 Jul 27 00:19:09 paul-laptop kernel: [ 212.376055] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Jul 27 00:19:09 paul-laptop kernel: [ 212.378740] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready Jul 27 00:19:09 paul-laptop kernel: [ 212.381322] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready -------- After boot (Link LED only is flashing)---------------- Jul 27 00:22:26 paul-laptop kernel: [ 133.105759] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready Jul 27 00:22:26 paul-laptop kernel: [ 133.125585] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Jul 27 00:22:26 paul-laptop kernel: [ 133.193865] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready Jul 27 00:22:27 paul-laptop kernel: [ 134.106516] NET: Registered protocol family 17 ----- After disabling roaming using Network Admin (Both Link and Act LEDs Flashing) but still no connection --------- Jul 27 00:23:50 paul-laptop kernel: [ 165.157143] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready Jul 27 00:23:50 paul-laptop kernel: [ 165.189797] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Jul 27 00:24:01 paul-laptop dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/wlan0 for sub-path wlan0.dbus.get.reason Jul 27 00:24:14 paul-laptop kernel: [ 648.264938] ndiswrapper (iw_set_freq:334): setting configuration failed (C0010015) Jul 27 00:24:14 paul-laptop kernel: [ 648.354222] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready Jul 27 00:24:18 paul-laptop dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/wlan0 for sub-path wlan0.dbus.get.domain_name Jul 27 00:24:18 paul-laptop dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/wlan0 for sub-path wlan0.dbus.get.nis_domain Jul 27 00:24:18 paul-laptop dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/wlan0 for sub-path wlan0.dbus.get.nis_servers Jul 27 00:24:18 paul-laptop dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/wlan0 for sub-path wlan0.dbus.get.interface_mtu ----After re-enabling roaming and falling back to Network manager (Link LED goes solid, Act LED flashes) connection established--------- For something that is supposed to "Just work" it is frustrating me to no end. I am at a loss as to what is going on. It is probably something simple as a result of the newbie factor. Could somebody please help me with this problem? Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
