Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Last Thursday I posted citing a problem connecting to a WPA network, offering complete syslog information that should describe what's going on, and I have received no reply. Granted, it's only been a few days, but in the meantime I spent lots of time Googling for similar problems. I found lots

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Darren Albers
On 8/14/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How do wireless connection problems with network manager/wpa_supplicant get solved? Do they get solved, or do people just give up? Really, this is not meant to be a rant; I do deeply appreciate that people work on and support this

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:42 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: On 8/14/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How do wireless connection problems with network manager/wpa_supplicant get solved? Do they get solved, or do people just give up? Really, this is not meant to be a rant; I do

Re: Doesn't always work after resume

2006-08-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 13:18 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: søn, 13,.08.2006 kl. 00.03 -0400, skrev Pat Suwalski: I have a similar issue with madwifi. To work around it, I right-click on the applet and uncheck Wireless then recheck it. It seems to work afterwards. I wonder if that is the

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Pat Suwalski
George Whitmore wrote: I just saw this post and I'm having almost the same issues of NO connection with ANY WPA encryption settings. I noticed your explanination that editing the config file is NOT needed. Got a problem with that as Ubuntu wiki how to for installing wpa_supplicant IS

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Darren Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/14/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How do wireless connection problems with network manager/wpa_supplicant get solved? Do they get solved, or do people just give up? Really, this is not meant to be a rant; I do deeply

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
George Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed your explanination that editing the config file is NOT needed. I don't think I explained anything like that. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ___ NetworkManager-list

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:42 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: When I saw your post I read the logs but didn't see anything that would indicate a problem. I vaguely remember some issues with hidden SSID's that were fixed in 0.6.3 that the Ubuntu maintainer may

Re: Frugalware Linux support for NetworkManager

2006-08-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 15:30 +0100, Alex Smith wrote: Hi, I've created a patch against NetworkManager CVS (actually CVS from a few weeks ago) for support for Frugalware Linux. The patch doesn't provide initscripts, as Frugalware has a rather complicated initsystem including localization with

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 10:41 -0400, David Abrahams wrote: Darren Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/14/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How do wireless connection problems with network manager/wpa_supplicant get solved? Do they get solved, or do people just give up?

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Robert Love
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 11:15 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: IBM T60p laptop builtin wireless. I'm not sure who manufactures that part of the circuit, but it's a Centrino Duo so probably Intel. Likely an ipw2200, ipw2915, or ipw3945, right? Do an 'lsmod | grep ipw' from a terminal and let us

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 10:46 -0400, David Abrahams wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:42 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: When I saw your post I read the logs but didn't see anything that would indicate a problem. I vaguely remember some issues with hidden

Re: Doesn't always work after resume

2006-08-14 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Dan Williams wrote: On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 13:18 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: søn, 13,.08.2006 kl. 00.03 -0400, skrev Pat Suwalski: I have a similar issue with madwifi. To work around it, I right-click on the applet and uncheck Wireless then recheck it. It seems to work

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 11:15 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: IBM T60p laptop builtin wireless. I'm not sure who manufactures that part of the circuit, but it's a Centrino Duo so probably Intel. Likely an ipw2200, ipw2915, or ipw3945, right? Do an 'lsmod

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Robert Love
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:28 -0400, David Abrahams wrote: You mean the Windows driver with ndiswrapper around it? Or is there a Linux driver for ipw3945? There is an excellent ipw3945 native Linux driver. See http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ and firmware. I have the latest BIOS for

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:28 -0400, David Abrahams wrote: Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 11:15 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: IBM T60p laptop builtin wireless. I'm not sure who manufactures that part of the circuit, but it's a Centrino Duo so probably Intel.

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Darren Albers
On 8/14/06, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:28 -0400, David Abrahams wrote: Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 11:15 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: IBM T60p laptop builtin wireless. I'm not sure who manufactures that part of

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, you have to download firmware for various devices, your wireless card included, to be able to use them. Firmware is different from BIOS since it's meant for your wireless card, not your laptop in general. Think of BIOS as firmware for your laptop

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

2006-08-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:46 -0400, David Abrahams wrote: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, you have to download firmware for various devices, your wireless card included, to be able to use them. Firmware is different from BIOS since it's meant for your wireless card, not your

Re: Doesn't always work after resume

2006-08-14 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Pat Suwalski wrote: Stian Jordet wrote: I have a problem that NetworkManager often (but not always) don't find my wireless network after a resume. It always works after a fresh boot, it sometimes work after resume. It always finds my neighbours unencrypted network

Re: [PATCH] Backend for Gentoo Linux with baselayout-1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Andy Botting
Steev, I emerged it, and straight away, I found that once I had joined a wireless network, I couldn't unjoin it or change to another. Aug 15 11:01:28 shiny NetworkManager: nm_ap_security_new_deserialize: assertion `dbus_message_iter_get_arg_type (iter) == DBUS_TYPE_INT32' failed Aug 15

Re: unable to setup wpa2 psk

2006-08-14 Thread Darren Albers
On 8/13/06, George Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Darren, Will do. It was just a WEP 128bit (that was a first, previously only 64 worked). I found a WPA wilki unbunto how to; In it they said I need to install wpa-supplicant and then edit the etc/wpa_supplicant config file. My system