Re: Clemson tigernet a success for NM with WPA Enterprise

-bundle.crt) -- does not work 2. CA Certificate: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt -- does not work -- Bill Moss Alumni Distinguished Professor Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

Clemson tigernet a success for NM with WPA Enterprise

Notes: Testing tigernet 3-18-08. Bill Moss Tests run on a T61 running a fully updated Windows XP, fully updated Fedora 8 with update kernel-2.6.24.3-34.fc8.x86_64, and NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8.x86_64. WPA Enterprise/PEAP/MSCHAPv2: PEAP is the second most widely supported EAP

Re: 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 kernel causes NM to fail to connect, 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 works perfectly

Some notes on F8 kernels + iwl3945 + NM http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/f8-nm-iwl3945-B.shtml -- Bill Moss Alumni Distinguished Professor Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org

ipw2200-1.1.3 and CVS HEAD 1.993

with this scenario, a boolean 'broadcast' key could be added to Gconf. The value should be set within the scan processing function, not later. When NM tries to resolve hidden essids by matching bssids, NM should only look at the networks in Gconf which are hidden (broadcast value false). -- Bill Moss Alumni

NM not connecting on resume, ipw2200

applied patches at HEAD 1.934 to fix this. 2. Two patches were made to ipw2200 version 1.1.3. From the Changelog * ipw_wx_set_essid fix (thanks to Bill Moss) * Reassociate even if set the same essid (thanks to Bill Moss) With these patches in place, my tests show that NM is much more robust

ipw2200 auto scanning and roaming

to connect if I do. Experiments continue. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: no carrier detection after resume from swsusp

org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep /dev/null 21 01 echo -n mem /sys/power/state /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wake /dev/null 21 01 -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

Re: DBUS query question

In the article at http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/nm.shtml I have scripts for starting and stopping firestarter using the Dispatcher. I also have a hack (iptables rules) for making firestarter work correctly with VPN. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

Re: Network Manager problem connecting to open wireless network

wpa_supplicant-0.5.1 has the AP_SCAN patch but not the essid len patch. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [patch] Make 'Wireless Networks' menu item inactive

I like the streamlined look you get by deleting the 'Wireless Networks' heading. See the graphic in the previous message. What you see is a list of networks and the ones that are wireless are obvious from the signal quality progress bars. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson

Enable networking/Enable wireless

places at Clemson where both wired and wireless networks are available but there are definitely times when the wired 100 Mbps is preferred and you want to conserve battery power as best you can. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

My 2 cents on signal quality

http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/signal_quality.shtml -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

NM HEAD 1.734 compile errors

: declaration of 'index' shadows a global declaration /usr/include/string.h:304: warning: shadowed declaration is here -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

NM HEAD 1.727 wpa ctrl socket bug

will accumulate in /tmp across boots. This is the bug. I expect that at shutdown, the wpa_supplicant process is being killed before NM is stopped and that this sequence of events results in the 'hanging' socket. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University -- Bill Moss Professor

Re: NM HEAD 1.721 AP_SCAN patched.]

behaviour ap_scan=2. This will work for now. Robert Love wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 14:27 -0500, Bill Moss wrote: 3. NM is now connecting at home with broadcast essid and at work with hidden essid. Was it not working before? Robert Love -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences

HEAD 1.721 w/ patched wpa_supplicant 0.5.0

in hidden and non-hidden networks. Comments: The 10 second timeout to acquire an ip address seems a bit short. How about 15-20 seconds. NM occasionally crashes right after the INTERFACE_ADD command is sent to wpa_supplicant. This happens about 1 in 10 connects. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical

NM HEAD 1.708 report

not hidden) using static WEP. Comment: Use of wpa supplicant seems to add a second to so to the connect time but otherwise it works. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list

Re: ForceKeepAlive possible in NM-vpnc?

I had a similar problem due to my firewall blocking keepalive packets. I opened to the following ports * port 1 UDP * port 1023 TCP * port 500 UDP -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list

deactivate device using ipw2200

server and call nm_device_new_ip4_autoip_config. There have been reports that ethtool can be fooled with ipw2200. I am looking for AP configuration scenarios that will cause ethtool to give a false positive response with ipw2200. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

Re: deactivate device using ipw2200

In my last message, ** should be and * * should be . Not sure how the cut and paste messed that up. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

Re: HEAD 1.587 + airo bug

Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:39 -0400, Bill Moss wrote: A user running kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4, wireless-tools-28-0.pre10.5, and the airo driver on an IBM T41 reported to me that he sees a 20 second delay before a connection is attempted when NM resumes from sleep or when

[1.463 hangs here

Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

[Fwd: Re: HEAD 1.450 applet.c patch]

in gconf are ones you have actually successfully connected to at some point in time. I like option B. Bill Moss Dan Williams wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Bill Moss wrote: The 'Connect to Other Network...' dialog will add a menu item to 'Wireless Networks' and will add the entered ESSID

HEAD 1.462 and 1.463, keyring errors

to Other Wireless Network ...', no connection is made. NM hangs in stage1 of activation waiting for the wireless device to deactivate. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

HEAD 1.451 gconf timestamp patch

. To see in gconf only APs for which a successful connection has been made, apply applet.patch. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University --- applet-dbus-info.c_orig 2005-08-16 08:58:45.0 -0400 +++ applet-dbus-info.c 2005-08-16 14:26:05.0 -0400 @@ -866,10

Making 'Connect to Other Network...' inactive

not deal with the case of an AP that has beaconing turned off. I would suggest that NM only support APs with beaconing turned on. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list

non-beaconing access points

doesn't support non-beaconing APs. If you want to duplicate this experiment, turn off your AP, boot, and try to make a connection with the 'Connect to Other Wireless Network ...' dialog. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

Re: NetworkManagerInfo/nm-applet development question

and available to NM as needed. I see no advantage to using key indexing. If that is all you use, you limit the number of keys you can use. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list

Re: validity of GConf data-connection to hidden APs

All tests performed with 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 Intel Pro 2200BG/driver ipw2200-1.0.6, ieee80211-1.0.3, firmware-2.3 Cisco AIR-PCM352/driver kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-airo, firmware 5.60.17 -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

Re: Separate entries for adhoc and managed networks?

in the list. Forcing connection to another network adds steps. Is there an easy way to let the user order the list? -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

Re: [patch] don't display very-low-strength APs

to percent, any use of link quality to change the behaviour of NM is not advised. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: suspend/resume wired

Moss Clemson Robert Love wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 09:03 -0400, Bill Moss wrote: After an acpi suspend/resume, both e1000 and ipw2200 drivers are loaded but the wired interface is not up. The patch fixes this by bringing up all devices when NM wakes. Ha! I spent the CVS outage

suspend/resume wired

(app_data); nm_policy_schedule_device_change_check (data-data); } -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

NetworkManager for FC4

shots of using Gnome. At this time, the only drawback to using KDE is that VPN passwords cannot be saved in Gnome keyring. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org

NM HEAD 1.378

the VPN configuration with David's new UI. Prior to compiling, I manually removed the vpn data in GConf. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

more Head 1.378

1. in vpn-daemons/vpnc do 'autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc' Now the VPN Connections menu shows up. 2. When the apply button is hit in VPN configuration, the info is not written to GConf. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

HEAD 1.378 bugs

the lock icon disappear a few seconds later a dialog box comes up reporting the Cisco banner which says I have a 'successful' connection. 4. ifconfig shows that no tun0 device has been created. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

NM scanning policy

the radio. When operationg on battery and connected by wire, scanning wastes power. Scans that take a long time can be disruptive. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list

Re: Cisco VPN config files converter

the decoding. 5. Whatever you do make sure the user is informed if the the import utility fails to find the Secret for whatever reason. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager

nm-vpn-properties

to eventually 'discover' the username? Seems like just adding username to the list of date entered would be simpler and suffice. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org

Re: Cisco VPN config files converter

the reader that the Secret was not available? -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Compile error NM Head Ch 1.337

I have a FC4 test2+ setup on an IBM T42 using the ipw2200-1.0.3. I had to up the minor version of dbus in libnm_glib.c from 31 to 32 to get NM to compile. NM seems to work OK. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

NM_Main 1.320 report

: NetworkManager [0x805acf1] NetworkManager: /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc6) [0x356db6] NetworkManager: NetworkManager [0x804c3f1] Trace/breakpoint trap -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

NM_MAIN 1.321 report

did not see this with the 2.6.10 kernels. I am seeing it again with the FC4 2.6.11 kernels. I am currently reloading the modules at the end of the boot process to workaround this issue. In rc.local I have added. /sbin/rmmod ipw2200 /sbin/rmmod ieee80211 /sbin/modprobe ipw2200 -- Bill Moss

Re: NM problems on fedora core 3

interference. I would change the channel of your AP to 1 or 6 and see what happens. Two AP's cannot operate on the same channel in the same location. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list

NM_MAIN 1.325

that it is only being called once when NM first starts but not afterwards. My conclusion about active device is probably wrong. When the function is being called the wireless device is probably not active. So the question is, why isn't this function being called every few seconds? -- Bill Moss

Re: NM_MAIN 1.325

I sent Dan a patch for the 'link quality stuck at 100%' bug. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: Stop/resume Wireless Devices in HEAD

icon or kill NM while I am on the airplane. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

RE: Tried and Failed NetworkManager on Fedora 3

I have a short article at http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/nm.shtml that may help. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Possible nmwa_dbus_update_device_wireless_networks bug

= g_slist_append (dev-networks, net); +syslog (LOG_INFO, num_items is %d item %d essid is %s strength is %d\n, num_items, i, net-essid, net-strength); } dbus_free (name); } -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

Re: 1.286 nm_deactivate_device bug

); if (dev-rebind_timeout 0) { g_source_remove (dev-rebind_timeout); Dan Williams wrote: At this time, is dev-renew_timeout 0? On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Bill Moss wrote: Scenario: connect wireless, switch to wired. At the t1 time, NM tries to renew the wireless address. The wireless device should have

1.280 dhcp renewal/rebinding times

: 130.127.134.47 Feb 15 10:05:34 localhost NetworkManager: DHCP Server Address: 192.168.8.15 (HW=00:D0:00:8C:9B:FC) Feb 15 10:05:34 localhost NetworkManager: Gateway Address: 130.127.132.1 -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

Re: 1.280 dhcp renewal/rebinding time

: Renewal Time (58): 0 Feb 15 10:09:24 localhost NetworkManager: Rebinding Time (59):0 I assume that in this scenario NM is computing T1 = lease_time/2 and T2 = 0.875*lease_time or something like that. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

multiple AP's with same essid

'Key already entered'. If a method of avoiding repeated entry of the same key in this scenario is already in place, let me know how to use it. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

Ethereal comparison 1.265 vs 1.270 DHCP Discover

List Option 60: Vendor class identifier = Linux 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 i686 Option 61: Client identifier == SMC DHCP immcdiately sends an ARP and the process continues to completion -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University

Re: Ethereal comparison 1.265 vs 1.270 DHCP Discover

of NM? It changes dhcpcd/buildmsg.c only. It now pads the message to over 300 bytes and ensures that the message is always an even number of bytes long. Thanks, Dan On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Bill Moss wrote: I think older hardware may reject messages that are too short. The UDP part

CVS-2-2 ipw2200 NMApplet bar empty patch

)) -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: CVS-2-2 NMApplet empty bar explained

, 2005-02-04 at 01:00 -0500, Bill Moss wrote: Now look at the results for the scanned AP's (list of one here). qual and noise are reported as 0. This is why the CVS-2-2 NMApplet bar is empty for the ipw2200 driver. NM uses the qual value of zero to create the bar length. We can convert the level

Re: CVS-2-2 NMApplet empty bar explained

VALUE comments. The developers are just waiting for someone to bit the bullet. Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 10:54 -0500, Bill Moss wrote: Take a look at the next message I sent about patching the NM nm_wireless_qual_to_percent function. If a driver does not report max_qual-level

CVS 2-2 nmtest results

/Networks/cuairnet (cuairnet) Strength: 0% /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1/Networks/cuairnet (cuairnet) Strength: 0% -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list

dhcp-lease

have not done test at work but I have a suspicion that renewal is not working there either. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: CVS-1-27 compile error explained

is gtk_window_set_default_icon_from_file(). This was the panel-applet's only dependency on libgnomeui, so the #include can be removed too. Patch attached. The only remaining dependency on libgnomeui is gnome-password-dialog in info-daemon/NetworkManagerInfoVPN.c, but that's not deprecated yet. -- Bill Moss Professor

Re: hal net.80203.link bug

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

no wireless connection at boot to Cisco AP

a wireless connection to a Cisco AP. NM gets a little kick from plugging in the wire and then unplugging it. -- Bill Moss Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clemson University ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http