On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 01:13 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > I have an AR5212 WLAN adapter that runs with the ath5k driver from linux > 2.6.31. I've tried NM 0.7.1 and 0.7.1_p20090824, and both fail to > operate that card correctly. It works flawlessly with wicd or > wpa_supplicant, but in nm-applet it says "device not ready". > In syslog I see:
Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed which means that the supplicant hasn't been correctly initialized; what is the contents of your: /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service file, and what do you get when you run this command (as root)? dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant /fi/epitest/hostap/WPASupplicant fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.getInterface string:wlan0 you should get something like this: method return sender=:1.58 -> dest=:1.78 reply_serial=2 object path "/fi/epitest/hostap/WPASupplicant/Interfaces/0" Dan > Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info> starting... > Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_1014_rfkill_phy0_wlan > Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): driver supports > SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01). > Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi > device (driver: 'ath5k') > Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): exported as > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_05_4e_47_24_10 > Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the > supplicant... > Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the system > settings daemon... > Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese [25148.952901] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is > not ready > Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese [25148.953399] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 > Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX > Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state > change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2) > Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device. > Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese [25148.986093] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is > not ready > Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): preparing device. > Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating > device (reason: 2). > Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: > assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed > > BTW, this happens now after I changed the system from Ubuntu 9.04 to > Gentoo for performance reasons. In Ubuntu it used to work (also with > ath5k). I have no idea if they patched nm or ath5k what else they might > do differently. > > thanks for any hints... > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
