On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:44 -0400, Andrew wrote:
> >>On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:21 -0400, Andrew wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I have appealed to the Fedora Forum, but no one seems to have a clue
> >there.
> >>>
> >>> Here is the thread:
> >>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=199562
> >>>
> >>> (A quick synopsis of the thread:
> >>>
> >>> I've activated/deactivated everything i could think of, related to
> >>NetworkManager; yet, everything wireless is grayed out in the applet.
> >>>
> >>> But wpa_supplicant (cli) works!
> >>>
> >>> Additional info (beyond above thread):
> >>>
> >>> I compiled the latest NetworkManager svn; still same grayed out behavior.
> >>>
> >>> )
> >>>
> >>> I tried looking in the source and tracing the calls to and from
> >>nm_client_wireless_get_enabled (if that's even a function) but, ignorant of
> >C,
> >>didn't get far.
> >>>
> >>> Please help!
> >>
> >>Does NM think wireless is disabled because a HAL killswitch is reporting
> >
> >Don't know enough about HAL to answer the above. (Where would i look?)
> >
> >>that it's off? Could you post some logs from /var/log/messages from
> >>when NM starts up?
> >
> >please see attachment. (i've X'ed out some addresses (xxxx:xxxx:....)
>
>
> ooops. The list strips attachment. Here is a web link to the same
> /var/log/messages chunk:
>
> http://www.flight.us/bugs/var_messages_nm_chunk.txt
What's the output of:
dellWirelessCtl
?
HAL found a killswitch and NM is honoring the setting of that killswitch
apparently.
Dan
>
>
> >NM keeps saying "wlan1: link is not ready"
> >
> >Yet, I can do "iwconfig" and "iwlist" with NO problem whatsoever, with good
> >results. Plus, as i said earlier (this seems VERY significant), i can
> >connect
> >with wpa_supplicant no prob (all the while NM is saying "wireless is
> >disabled"!)
> >
> >>It could also be that you've disabled the device in
> >>system-config-network, in which case the menu will say the device is
> >>"unmanaged".
> >
> >I have played with system-config-network every which way, before. "wlan1"
> >(and
> >"wlan0") are both assigned to NM, ("Controlled by NM" is checked). (wlan0
> >versus wlan1 is created depending on which atheros card i insert -- i have
> >two
> >at my disposal)
> >
> >
> >>
> >>dan
> >>
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