Re: timeout when connecting

2006-03-22 Thread Gour
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 18:26 -0300, Cesar Cardoso wrote: Hi Cesar! It looks that connection was not provided by NM, but by plain wpa_supplicant :-( you don't need the driver-workarounds patch anymore (yay for madwifi developers, finally!), just upgrade to 0.6.1. I use r1474 madwifi-ng driver

Re: timeout when connecting

2006-03-22 Thread Gour
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 09:50 +0100, Gour wrote: Any idea? On #networkmanager I got a help and applied the following patch: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/devel/NetworkManager/special-case-madwifi.patch?rev=1.1 Now it works :-) but NM quickly drops connection :-( Sincerely,

WPA2 Enterprise (and other things)

2006-03-22 Thread Jon Escombe
Firstly, would just like to say thanks to all the developers, NetworkManager is turning into a really useful tool. I've just rebuilt NM from source* on an FC5 machine and run into a couple of issues: 1) WPA2 Enterprise connection works fine when all the credentials are entered (using TLS a

Re: timeout when connecting

2006-03-22 Thread Cesar Cardoso
Hm, that's a difference here. I went back to wpa_supplicant 0.4.8. On 3/22/06, Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 18:26 -0300, Cesar Cardoso wrote: Hi Cesar! It looks that connection was not provided by NM, but by plain wpa_supplicant :-( you don't need the

LEAP development assist

2006-03-22 Thread Anders Östling
Hi listSince I am very eager to have the LEAP stuff implemented in NM, I decided to dump a complete session log to the developer list (attached). Maybe it can be of some use to someone...I have tried to get a grip on how NM works (codewise) but there are still a few gray areas. I have got very

Re: timeout when connecting

2006-03-22 Thread Gour
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:02 -0300, Cesar Cardoso wrote: Hm, that's a difference here. I went back to wpa_supplicant 0.4.8. I'm with wpa_supplicant-0.5.2 and now everything works except that NM drops connection from time to time although plain wpa was very stable robust. Sincerely, Gour

Re: DHCP timeout patch

2006-03-22 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:09 +0100, Radek Vokál wrote: Hi, I've realized that 25sec DHCP timeout limit is not enough on my slow network, so I've proposed a small patch on RH bugzilla for adding new option to NetworkManager, allowing to specify the timeout value. Please see

Ignoring AdHoc

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Dugas
Has there been any progress in NM toward differentiating between Managed and AdHoc networks? I'm still ditching NM and manually configuring the card when I'm onsite (couple days a week) at one customer where all their users are on Windows laptops and there always seems to be one that is

Re: DHCP timeout patch

2006-03-22 Thread Darren Albers
I have had other bug reports that users need DHCP timeouts in the 30~40 second range. To be sure, most ifup scripts wait longer than 25s. I think a timeout in the 30-40 second range would also resolve the issues with portfast... ___

Re: DHCP timeout patch

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Jones
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:27 -0500, Robert Love wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:09 +0100, Radek Vokál wrote: Hi, I've realized that 25sec DHCP timeout limit is not enough on my slow network, so I've proposed a small patch on RH bugzilla for adding new option to NetworkManager, allowing to

Re: DHCP timeout patch

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Jones
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:57 -0500, Darren Albers wrote: I have had other bug reports that users need DHCP timeouts in the 30~40 second range. To be sure, most ifup scripts wait longer than 25s. I think a timeout in the 30-40 second range would also resolve the issues with portfast...

Re: NetworkManager and STP

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:41 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: What's the situation here? NM only cares if the machine's ethernet card has a link or not, which is reported by the driver for the card itself. Once the driver reports that it has a link, NM will attempt to acquire a DHCP address on that

Re: NetworkManager and STP

2006-03-22 Thread Darren Albers
The way this is supposed to work is that you configure STP for each of the ports you're using to communicate with other switches, and thus you get high availability out of it. What actually happens is that network admins get lazy, and instead of planning their network, they turn STP on for

Re: WPA Enterprise TTLS

2006-03-22 Thread Robert Love
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 18:38 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I've been trying to connect to a wireless network that uses 802.11x. I was told by someone who connected using an Apple laptop that I needed to use TTLS with PAP. In the WPA Enterprise window that appeared when I tried to

Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-22 Thread Robert Love
Hi, guys. I checked a first-pass at Dynamic WEP into CVS, on both HEAD and the 0.6 branch (since it was not overly complex). Jan and Dennis, I would love to hear if it works for you and, if not, what goes wrong. Thanks! Robert Love ___

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-22 Thread Robert Love
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 14:50 -0500, Robert Love wrote: I checked a first-pass at Dynamic WEP into CVS, on both HEAD and the 0.6 branch (since it was not overly complex). Jan and Dennis, I would love to hear if it works for you and, if not, what goes wrong. If not obvious: Select Dynamic WEP

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-22 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On wo, 2006-03-22 at 14:54 -0500, Robert Love wrote: If not obvious: Select Dynamic WEP as the Key type in the WPA Enterprise configuration. Another question is, if NM detects your Dynamic WEP-based AP, does it think it is doing WPA Enterprise? It should. Robert, you rock! I'll test in

Re: WPA Enterprise TTLS

2006-03-22 Thread Robert Love
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 20:58 +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: Sorry to hijack this thread but that would also explain (parts of) my 802.1x/WEP problem I posted about 2 days ago - that one uses PAP too. AFAIK you can simply send wpa_supplicant this parameter via the control channel at the same

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-22 Thread Robert Love
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 21:14 +0100, Jan Mynarik wrote: Another question is, if NM detects your Dynamic WEP-based AP, does it think it is doing WPA Enterprise? It should. No, when I select this network from nm-applet's list, n-m tries to connect and then opens dialog asking for WEP

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-22 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 15:08, Robert Love wrote: to wpa_supplicant if the user selects a specific option. But I need to better understand the problem. What is PAP ? What other second-stage authentications are there? Are they only valid with certain ciphers? From the

Re: timeout when connecting

2006-03-22 Thread Luka Renko
On 3/22/06, Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:02 -0300, Cesar Cardoso wrote: Hm, that's a difference here. I went back to wpa_supplicant 0.4.8.I'm with wpa_supplicant-0.5.2 and now everything works except that NMdrops connection from time to time although plain wpa was very

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-22 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On wo, 2006-03-22 at 15:14 -0500, Robert Love wrote: Hrm. That is a problem. Kind of sucks if there is no way for the AP to advertise that it does half-WPA/half-WEP. I presumed it would advertise the WPA-EAP stuff, but then non-WPA cards might not grok that. There is no such way indeed.

Re: 802.1x + WEP

2006-03-22 Thread Jan Mynarik
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 09:29 -0500, Robert Love wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 12:24 +, Jan Mynarik wrote: same here (802.1x EAP/TLS) and no n-m's WPA profile works (via Connect to Other Wireless Network). I am going to look at adding this -- but, what in here actually says use WEP

Re: NetworkManager and vmware bridged network?

2006-03-22 Thread Brett Johnson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:18 -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: The problem has nothing to do with NetworkManager, but with your drivers (at least that was the case with me). I use the ipw2200 driver, and the one that came with Breezy didn't work with VMware, so I had to manually upgrade to the latest

Re: 802.1x + WEP

2006-03-22 Thread Jan Mynarik
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 09:48 -0500, Robert Love wrote: I read the config once again later and said that to myself too :-) Our admins at work told me it's WEP/TLS. And n-m offers me only WEP when I connect to our wifi network. I need to use Connect to other wireless network to be able to set

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

2006-03-22 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 15:14 -0500, Robert Love wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 21:14 +0100, Jan Mynarik wrote: Another question is, if NM detects your Dynamic WEP-based AP, does it think it is doing WPA Enterprise? It should. No, when I select this network from nm-applet's list, n-m

[PATCH] dont set invisible_char

2006-03-22 Thread j
NetworkManager right now sets invisible_char to the default value of * in all .glade files, that is not needed and poses an even bigger problem if the system default is changed. attached patch removes all property name=invisible_char*/property entries from .glade files in cvs j Index:

Re: [PATCH] dont set invisible_char

2006-03-22 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 23:29 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetworkManager right now sets invisible_char to the default value of * in all .glade files, that is not needed and poses an even bigger problem if the system default is changed. attached patch removes all property

Re: timeout when connecting

2006-03-22 Thread Gour
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 21:57 +0100, Luka Renko wrote: I think this is know issue with madwifi drivers: NM does scans also when conected and madwifi driver cannot perform such scan in background, therefore it disconnects current connection to perform scan. Huh...this is certainly explaining