Re: [patch] first pass at gnome-keyring support, baby.

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 22:19 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

> Quite right.  At this time NM queries nm-applet for all networks when it gets 
> the NameOwnerChanged.  What you propose sounds reasonable.  We don't really 
> _need_ the key until we try to connect to the access point.

Agreed.

> [1] Actually, it seems to work perfect.  But I am having a lot of
> > problems with NetworkManager and encrypted essids (or maybe just
> > switching between lots of essids in general) and my airo wireless card.
> > Sometimes the daemon just starts sitting there.  Sometimes it stops
> > scanning.  In either case, it won't exit.  Quick debugging shows it is
> > spinning on a mutex.  Although I've also seen evidence it is waiting for
> > something from the card.  It is confusing to the point of tears.  I'll
> > debug it later.  I should add that, ahem, Netapplet works fine with my
> > card.  ;-)
> 
> Ok, can I get some backtraces here for all threads?  Also, is the airo card 
> borked?  ie, lots of messages in /var/log/messages about "command timed out".  
> There are a number of historical problems with airo cards, including but not 
> limited to:
> 
> 1) Card screws up and gets hung, driver can't talk to card because commands time 
> out, can't unload airo.ko because no data can be sent (card's hung) and 
> therefore the module refcount isn't decreased
> 2) Doesn't work with firmwares > 5.20.17 and WEP
> 3) Card doesn't return non-broadcasting ESSIDs from scans

#1 sounds like me.  I have the right firmware.  It works in Netapplet
but it could just be behavioral differences that induce it in
NetworkManager more readily.

I'll get backtraces next time it happens.  I got some last night (not
saved, sorry) and it was a lot of spinning in mutexes.

But then I cannot "modprobe -r airo" so I suspect the card is to blame.
And NetworkManager won't shutdown (stalls on waiting to deactivate the
airo).  And if I kill it and restart, scanning does not work.

So...while there may be NM issues, sounds like my card sucks the ass of
a wolverine.  But odd that Netapplet had no problems.

	Robert Love