Agreement to relicense NetworkManager under LGPL-2.1+

I, Robert Love, agree to relicense my contributions to NetworkManager as LGPL-2.1+ as proposed by Thomas Haller. Some of my work may be held under copyright by Novell, Inc. I do not speak for that entity. Robert ___ networkmanager-list mailing

Re: name caching?

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 06:23 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: I've been using nm with a local named for caching. Works fine, but probably overkill. What is the simplest way to use nm and get some local name caching? nscd, glibc's caching daemon. Robert

Re: T-Mobile (and other) support

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 16:28 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: In order to connect to T-Mobile (and presumably some other) 802.1x networks (Not the current tmobile WEP), NM needs to use PAP for the secondary (Inner Auth). I'm presently using NM v0.6.3-2ubuntu6, which doesn't support this. Is there

Re: [Patch] Mark devices disabled on suse

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:49 +0200, Tambet Ingo wrote: Here's a small patch to mark devices disabled when they're disabled in yast. I have one concern about this...people might have various settings as their STARTMODE from when they used ifup, NetworkManager currently works, and then they

Re: Autoip - icon

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:41 +0100, Martin Vidner wrote: Hey, Martin. How about a small superimposed 1:1 or 2 to hint that this kind of connection is only useful for an ad-hoc connection of two computers? There are also Apple-style networks without a DHCP server (or anything else) where there

Re: Starting Network Manager?

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 13:25 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote: Given that --sm-disable is for all intents ubiquitous, I wonder whether we ought to make that the default. I suggested this before (we do so in our SUSE package) but it was rejected. I'd be happy to do so--its a one-line change.

Re: Proposing nm-applet for GNOME 2.18?

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 14:51 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: IIRC, there was some interest to propose nm-applet for GNOME 2.18. Is this still the case? If yes, a small mail to d-d-l would be great ;-) Yah, I stirred that up before. I will do it right now. Robert Love

Re: Cannot activate two NIC's at the same time?

network interfaces, but only one can be up at a time. Multiple concurrently-up interfaces is a feature slated for our 0.7 development tree. Best, Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

know what you find. The T60 has an ipw3945, which is a great chip. Try using the latest version of the driver and firmware. I had issues with earlier versions, but the current stuff is great. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list

Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

for this machine, if that's what you mean. No, I mean firmware for the ipw3945. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: [PATCH RFC] set SSID before launching wpa_supplicant

not need it. What wireless driver do you have? Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: boot process and networkManager

in NM's init script, after you launch it. This will block the initscript until NM obtains a network connection or N seconds elapse (whatever happens first). I think (1) is ideal, but that requires a bit of work. Robert Love

Re: boot process and networkManager

got a network connection. There are tools to do this, Robert Love has one somewhere. src/nm-online in CVS. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager

HEAD now requires glib 2.10 or later.

of glib. Agreed. I converted a bunch of g_malloc/g_new calls to g_slice_new, bumped out glib requirement to 2.10, and checked it into HEAD. Everyone, please test. Also, I found a memory leak in the process. I back-ported that to the 0.6 branch. Enjoy, Robert Love

Re: [PATCH]: Endian problem in libnm-util

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:59 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: Thanks for finding this; though I think rather than using compile-time flags we should be doing runtime endianness conversions... No architecture we care about (that I know of) has machine types with varying endianness. Robert

g_slice considered awesome.

Party people, I did some preliminary testing[1] the other day with beaglefs[2], to measure the performance gain or hit from using glib's new memory slices[3]. In a workcase where many objects are created and freed[4], I measured a sizable performance gain from memory slices over g_malloc. Even

Re: Setting access point MAC address?

, whether or not my hunch w.r.t. wpa_supplicant is correct. madwifi, for example, just blows up when it roams. I wonder if locking the BSSID makes sense? It has other benefits, too -- e.g., security. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list

Re: Setting access point MAC address?

if wpa_supplicant does dumb things with roaming. We sure have a lot of issues surrounding AP roaming. Does wpa_supplicant consider roaming association loss, and kill the connection? Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list

Re: ipw3945

and NM work fine out-of-the-box, although there are a few known bugs in the driver. Perhaps try a more recent driver and firmware. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

[announce] NetworkManager 0.6.4

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Re: [announce] NetworkManager 0.6.4

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 12:45 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: Please push to FC5 updates-testing. Thanks! I don't work for Red Hat. Please bring this up on a fedora list. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list

Re: FC5 NM/Madwifi roaming loses IP Address

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Re: FC5 NM/Madwifi roaming loses IP Address

if roaming worked ... Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: NM Drops Connections

if needed where it shows all is well and a hour later drops the connection. I then have to add my AP again. How repeatable / reproducible? Please attach the log. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org

Re: Early timeouts connecting to unencrypted network with ndiswrapper on FC5

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Re: nm-edit (was: Re: [3/3] Do something with trusted networks)

for editing WPA Enterprise, we should put that in the applet. The current UI is pretty heavy -- but so are the number of WPA-EAP options. Is this bad boy in C? I don't see any reason not to stick it in CVS, under gnome/editor or similar. Dan? Robert Love

Re: nm-edit

a WITH_GNOME option for building stuff in that directory. I think we want to integrate the editor and the applet tightly, but keep them separate processes. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

Re: cvs commit policy?

-specific commits. If your commit is appropriate for the stable branch, by all means commit there, too. But keep in mind that the branch is indeed stable ... Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

Re: [3/3] Do something with trusted networks

the wireless spec. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: [announce] NetworkManager 0.6.3

back. Users found it confusing and it offered little gain. Sorry that you liked it! Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: [3/3] Do something with trusted networks

still punch a vendor for reusing the same BSSID. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: N-M doesn't work without gnome keyring?

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 12:20 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: Perhaps the NetworkManager RPM should have a pre-requisite of gnome-keyring-manager. It should. But this is a Fedora issue. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list

fallback support is checked into HEAD.

fallback support is in HEAD. Enjoy! You can mark a network as fallback via other-network-dialog or the tool nm-set-fallback. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

[1/3] Do something with trusted networks

there. Since nothing actually sets the trusted bit true, this is merely a cleanup, the net effect is null. All of these are against the STABLE 0.6 branch but also apply to HEAD. You will want to `cvs up` as of now, because I just committed some bug fixes. Robert Love Index: gnome/applet

[2/3] Do something with trusted networks

. Use is simple: $ ./nm-set-trusted network true|false Yes, we need a wireless networks editor. I agree with you all. Robert Love nm-set-trusted Description: application/shellscript Index: gnome/applet/applet.glade

[3/3] Do something with trusted networks

and cannot scan, if your card is broken and does not return hidden networks, or if your network is hidden and you don't know all of the MAC addresses. What we do here is debatable. This is one such solution. Robert Love Index: src/NetworkManagerAPList.c

Re: [3/3] Do something with trusted networks

networks in the scan list, but do perform the fall-back brute-force thingy. And then...PROFIT. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

fallback functionality with persistence.

of the previous three. Robert Love Index: gnome/applet/applet-dbus-devices.c === RCS file: /cvs/gnome/NetworkManager/gnome/applet/applet-dbus-devices.c,v retrieving revision 1.51.2.4 diff -u -r1.51.2.4 applet-dbus-devices.c

[announce] NetworkManager 0.6.3

fixes since 0.6.2. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: [3/3] Do something with trusted networks

, with two different ESSID's, but sharing one BSSID? That violates the wireless spec, I am 99% sure. Who makes the access point? The reason NM chokes on it is that we have logic to merge two AP objects into one if they share the same BSSID. Robert Love

Re: [3/3] Do something with trusted networks

. But that seems useful in very few cases. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: Fwd: nm-applet asks several times for keyring password

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 18:02 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote: Filed it as bug #343404 : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343404 I believe that this bug is now fixed in CVS, in which case this bug is a dupe of #341297. Robert Love

Re: nm-applet asks several times for keyring password

stuff goes to HEAD, or gets vendor-patched instead. I agree. I'd like to lock all API, though -- NMI, too. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: nm-applet asks several times for keyring password

: See Joe Shaw's patch at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331003 Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: 802.1x wep?

Morgan Read wrote: - Nothing, my point. Worry not, the TODO list is not even remotely all-inclusive. And it is mostly architectural changes. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

Re: 802.1x wep?

, but that is untrue. We want it. I do not have a time table, but it is certainly on the list -- if you write a patch tomorrow, we'd merge it! Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: Problem compiling CVS

: ‘NMDevice80211WirelessPrivate’ has no member named ‘scan_mutex’ nm-device-802-11-wireless.c:196: error: ‘NMDevice80211WirelessPrivate’ has no member named ‘scan_mutex’ Whoops. I checked in the STABLE patch on HEAD. Fixed, now. Thanks, Robert Love

Re: NetworkManager CVS detects bcm43xx as wired

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[patch] my latest wireless drivers workaround patch.

Here it is. A bunch of crap we sadly should never need but unfortunately do. Robert Love Index: src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c === RCS file: /cvs/gnome/NetworkManager/src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c,v retrieving revision

Re: Ad-Hoc networks again

probably need new icons. It can be handled in the same way we do secure networks now, with a different icon. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: Rekeying and vpnc...

, OPT_TYPE_ASCII }, { NULL, OPT_TYPE_UNKNOWN } }; unsigned inti; What else do we need (vpnc patches, etc.) to make rekeying work? And no NM changes should break users without a patched vpnc. Robert

Re: change the gnome keyring manager password

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 22:14 -0600, Eli Criffield wrote: And how do you set it to have no password ? I don't think he said that he did. He wants to change it. If it is ever not set, it will prompt you for a new one on first use. Robert Love

Re: change the gnome keyring manager password

of the keyring. Of course, you will lose all of your data, too. Pretty lame! Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: [announce] NetworkManager 0.6.2 - dhcdbd

file. I added a note to NEWS on the top of the branch. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: Problem with errors in starting nm-applet

' for class `GtkDialog' I don't know what these errors mean. Do anyone else? Warnings, not errors. I suppose your libglade is old. It works fine with 2.5.x. Does everything work fine, otherwise? If so, don't sweat it. Robert Love

Re: Notification icon removed

Yes. How can I put the icon back in notification area ? gnome-session-properties should allow you to reenable the service. Otherwise, do `rm ~/.config/autostart/nm-applet.desktop`. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list

Re: WPA2 Enterprise (and other things)

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:32 +, Jon Escombe wrote: Anyway, full patch attached. Thank you, sir. I banged on this with various networks. Works good and looks right. Committed to HEAD and the 0.6 branch. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager

Re: [PATCH] Two small build fixes

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 08:49 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Is the if.h change OK? I fear another back-and-forth with kernel vs. userspace hearders here... I do too, but it seems to work for me, and we should prefer glibc to kernel headers when possible ... so, committed. Robert Love

Re: too many information messages

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 23:31 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why debugging at all? what about not passing any -d's? Also possible, but don't expect anyone to be able to debug any problems. I find -d a nice balance between noise and signal. Robert Love

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

for this information, Jouni. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: WPA2 Enterprise (and other things)

then. Presumably if the connection isn't successful then the configuration details aren't stored? Correct. Anyway, full patch attached. Thank you, sir. I'll bang on it. Dan, what do you think? Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list

Re: KNetworkManager SCM

the options I'd prefer. That way, we have everything together in one place, and it's in a place that's got a track record of both KDE and GNOME devs working together :) So long as it is f.d.o SVN (not CVS), I am 100% for this. Robert Love

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

easy to pile all these options into a single UI. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

no get that long. This won't fly. As just one example, my passphrase at home is a legitimate hex key (I am, yes, an idiot). Differentiating between ASCII and passphrase is even harder. We need to ask. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list

Re: [PATCH] dont set invisible_char

=invisible_char*/property entries from .glade files in cvs Good catch. Committed to HEAD and the 0.6 branch. At least in my version, Glade sets this property for me. So another patch would be to have glade not set the field whatsoever, by default. Robert Love

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:15 -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote: Robert Love wrote: This won't fly. As just one example, my passphrase at home is a legitimate hex key (I am, yes, an idiot). Differentiating between ASCII and passphrase is even harder. We need to ask. I've seen

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

, and most users going forward, use passphrases, so the best bet we can have is default to passphrase as the key type and expect our users to change it if needed. Otherwise, as Dan wrote, we are just asking for confusion. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:43 -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote: I don't see how -- to the best of my knowledge, the ascii keys are not allowed to be 26 characters long, and the hex keys must be 26 characters long... Right, but passphrases can be either of those things. Robert Love

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

of typing hex... Yah, this would be nice. We would have to re-run our validation function on the input and clear it if it no longer matched, though. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

Re: KNetworkManager SCM

to discuss: I wanted to propose NetworkManager (or at least nm-applet) for the GNOME Desktop proper, as g-v-m is now a member. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [PATCH] dont set invisible_char

it. Glade seems to be setting it, so it snuck in when I or someone else last edited the file, I guess. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: DHCP timeout patch

. To be sure, most ifup scripts wait longer than 25s. Dan, any thoughts here on a bump? Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: WPA Enterprise TTLS

, we do not support that. I have been intending to add second-stage authentication, but I don't know a lot about it. If you could get a hold of a working wpa_supplicant.conf for your configuration, that would be a start. Robert Love

Dynamic WEP support.

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.

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: WPA Enterprise TTLS

time you send the other parameters. ... if you can do this while testing Dynamic WEP, that would be helpful. ;-) Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Dynamic WEP support.

... and selecting WPA Enterprise with a key type of Dynamic WEP and filing out the other fields selectively, as needed. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager

Re: 802.1x + WEP

generate this exact configuration now... Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: 802.1x + WEP

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 ? Robert Love

[announce] NetworkManager 0.6.1

for all users of the 0.6 branch. See ChangeLog and NEWS for the full scoop. Enjoy, Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

[patch] madwifi-ng driver fix.

Recent madwifi-ng releases (since r1451 or so) have been busted. The attached patch fixed it for me. Robert Love diff -ur madwifi-ng-r1451-20060212/net80211/ieee80211_input.c madwifi-ng-r1451-20060212.mod/net80211/ieee80211_input.c --- madwifi-ng-r1451-20060212/net80211

Re: no vpn plugin tarballs for 0.6

tarballs that don't match the module name? I don't think you can. So we can do this, but we'd have to put all of the VPN plugins in one tarball. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: no vpn plugin tarballs for 0.6

in the base NetworkManager package. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: No WPA under Wireless Security

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 23:01 +0100, krischan wrote: WEP and VPN worked perfectly. This is because your wireless driver does not support WPA (or more likely reports that it does not). What driver? NM only displays security methods that your driver supports. Robert Love

Re: no vpn plugin tarballs for 0.6

to be), so we do not necessarily have something to release. I agree it would be nice to get tarballs of these packages up. I can talk with the gnome.org folks and see what we can do other than created n new modules for all of the VPN plugins. Robert Love

Re: Re: wireless driver workarounds

, and there is still a problem, but I think this patch is fine. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

don't need dynamic allocations here. const char *driver = madwifi; is sufficient. As it stands, this code allocates both a static character array and a dynamic one. Just a tip ;-) Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

= cat; else if (bar) driver = dog; else driver = fox; And you do not free it. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

wireless driver workarounds

Attached patch is a collection of workarounds for madwifi, orinoco, and ndiswrapper that I have worked on or that have been posted to this list. We are probably not going to merge any of this. If NM does not work for you but works with this patch, we would like to know. Robert Love

Re: small patch for DBUS 0.60

basis. I actually would prefer to just require DBUS 0.60, although your patch is a viable option, too. By and by, I don't see where we require 0.50, though. Dan, opinions? Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list

Re: small patch for DBUS 0.60

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 13:31 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Not particularly, but I think I'd rather require dbus 0.60 too. While the patch does preserve the old behavior, the old behavior was clearly broken. I bumped our requirement from 0.22 (!) to 0.60. Robert Love

Re: Subject Prefix...

to identify list traffic in a long list of email. I get several hundred mails a day and every little bit helps. Set up a mailing list filter! The subject prefix is ugly and annoying. Filter on ^X-BeenThere: networkmanager-list@gnome.org and you are gold. Robert Love

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:39 -0500, Robert Love wrote: Bill said the committed patch worked for him, but that obviously doesn't make sense now. s/Bill/Brian/ sorry. Anyhow, this patch at least does not break anything for me. ndiswrapper users, does this fix your problems? Robert

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 09:52 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: We've seen this around as well, but it seems to be fairly random. I have a bug report (Novell bug #153536) where it is happening pretty regularly. Very odd. Robert Love

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:42 -0500, Robert Love wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:39 -0500, Robert Love wrote: Bill said the committed patch worked for him, but that obviously doesn't make sense now. s/Bill/Brian/ sorry. Anyhow, this patch at least does not break anything for me

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 19:38 -0500, Brian Magnuson wrote: Appears to be ok. Comments? Unfortunately, it won't work for everyone. There are only a handful of wpa_supplicant drivers. ndiswrapper just happens to be one of them. Robert Love

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

); + } Has anyone tested without this chunk, and with just the second hunk that sets the wpa_supplicant driver? Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

requisite, or if setting the driver is sufficient. Partly my curiosity stems from the fact that we do a set_mode() a few lines later ... and apparently that is okay. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

a generic wext driver that handles the wireless extension API. it also defines a handful of custom drivers, because the kernel wireless drivers are such pieces of cat poop. madwifi and ndiswrapper are two of them. but, say, airo (a valid kernel driver) is not. Robert Love

Re: Wireless silently disconnects?

to do. So ... this works for you? Good. I would be curious if you needed the second hunk. The reason being is that Dan doesn't want to put these driver-specific hacks in NM (with good reason), but the first hunk makes more sense. Robert Love

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