Hi I'm pulling my hair out with this problem
I can get a wireless connection manually, no problem, but I want to use the laptop away from home and want NM to handle the connections I have the following installed to get wireless: NM 7.0 Wpa-supplicant-0.6.8 Dbus-1,2,4 Hal-0.5.9.1 DHCP-4.1 client only Driver iwl3945 The supplicant conf file is in /etc I'm not running the supplicant daemon at boot up(makes no difference if I do) - letting NM handle it all I get the following error in /var/log when NM starts: Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> starting... Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_generic_enable_loopback(): error -17 returned from rtnl_addr_add(): Sucess Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver is 'iwl3945'. Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01). Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> Found new 802.11 WiFi device 'wlan0'. Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_13_02_0d_3f_93 Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the supplicant... Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the system settings daemon... Feb 20 12:43:18 cliffhanger nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2 Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device. Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): preparing device. Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2). Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed I've googled this error and have seen everything from missing scripts /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service - I have this and the one in /etc/dbus-1 to: incorrect flags on compilation to: incorrect permissions in dbus I've checked all this and nothing changes - please help MAC -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
