Re: CVS-1-27

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Moss
The NM failure reported earlier appears to have been caused by a firmware crash for ipw2200 driver. This driver is still subject to random crashes. This is an active bug. The firmware restart usually slows NM down or makes it fail. I have been able to make several successful wireless connection

Re: CVS-1-27

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Bill Moss wrote: > Note that the essid and key have been set but no MAC address has been > set for the AP. This is where the problem lies. Bill, We don't set the MAC address of the AP on the card itself, the address you see there comes from the card's firmware and is valid

CVS-1-27

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Moss
The changes made this afternoon have made NM fail to make a wireless connection. syslog shows an attempt to make an Open System connection, which would normally be successful. Then an attempt is make to make a Shared Key connection. No connection is made. After stoping NM and NMInfo, iwconfig e

Re: Problems connecting using ahteros based wireless card

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Ionescu
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:46:49 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:28 +0100, Stefan Zechmeister wrote: >> NetworkManager: Activation (ath0) started... NetworkManager: Activation >> (ath0/wireless): waiting for an access point. NetworkManager: Activation >> (ath0/wireless): wai

Re: Problems connecting using ahteros based wireless card

2005-01-27 Thread Lance A. Brown
Dan Williams wrote: What you need to do to debug this is the following... In a separate window, run the command "watch -n 1 iwconfig ath0" and let that run while NM is trying to associate with the AP. Look at the MAC address that the card reports, and if it changes to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF too often

Re: Problems connecting using ahteros based wireless card

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:28 +0100, Stefan Zechmeister wrote: > NetworkManager: Activation (ath0) started... > NetworkManager: Activation (ath0/wireless): waiting for an access point. > NetworkManager: Activation (ath0/wireless): waiting for an access point. > NetworkManager: Activation (ath0/wirele

Problems connecting using ahteros based wireless card

2005-01-27 Thread Stefan Zechmeister
Hello! i have problems using networkmanager with my atheros based wireless card (built in wlan in ibm thinkpad t41). the madwifi drivers seem to work, but networkmanager does not get a connection: iwconfig reports: ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"ESSID" Nickname:"NICK" Mode:Managed

Re: Do you need any further info on Intersil PRISM2 (orinoco_cs)?

2005-01-27 Thread D. D. Brierton
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:53 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Great to hear you're interested... One thing you _could_ do is to grab > the upstream Orinoco drivers (orinoco.sf.net) and try to build it, then > use it with NetworkManager and report what seems to be broken. I'm very happy to do that. By

Re: integration of nonphysical interfaces in NM

2005-01-27 Thread Tomislav Vujec
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:31:56 +0100, Tomislav Vujec wrote: > This is not a huge time server, but it is definitely something worth ^^ I obviously wanted to say time saver here :-) Tomislav ___ NetworkManager-list mailing li

Re: integration of nonphysical interfaces in NM

2005-01-27 Thread Tomislav Vujec
> Colin Walters and I have talked about a configurable server that you > could "ping" (like some internal server that you can't get to from > outside) that would identify whether or not you're on the company LAN. > Other than that, we could do something based on DHCP reply (ie if you're > given an

Re: hal net.80203.link bug

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Moss
David Zeuthen released hal-0.4.7.cvs20050126-1 hal-gnome-0.4.7.cvs20050126-1 hal-devel-0.4.7.cvs20050126-1 last night which fixed for me the net.80203.link bug that I reported to yesterday bugzilla and to this list since it affected the operation of NM. Wow, that fix was fast! 8-) -- Bill Moss P

Re: integration of nonphysical interfaces in NM

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:24 +0100, Tomislav Vujec wrote: > I think some applications might care, e.g. email client. My usage pattern > looks like this: > 1) Connect to the Internet > 2) If I am in the company LAN, go to step 4 > 3) connect to the VPN > 4) Sync my email > Now NM removes the requirem

Re: Do you need any further info on Intersil PRISM2 (orinoco_cs)?

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:24 +, D. D. Brierton wrote: > waiting for upstream improvements in the orinoco driver. I just wanted > to know if I could help out (no I'm not a developer so I can't help with > programming). Darren, Great to hear you're interested... One thing you _could_ do is to g

Re: integration of nonphysical interfaces in NM

2005-01-27 Thread Tomislav Vujec
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:54:39 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > In the case of VPN, why do other programs _care_? What good does it do > to advertise VPN connections to other applications at all? Most > applications care about "getting to the internet", which a VPN does for > you. In the case of a VPN