Re: latest NM no longer works with ipw2200

[Jeroen Zwartepoorte <jeroen zwartepoorte gmail com>]

So with the latest rawhide kernel and related packages
(2.6.14-1.1660_FC5) NetworkManager works great again. Incidentally:
the latest rawhide kernel now has ipw2200 1.0.8 requiring firmware >=
2.4.

Jeroen

On 11/5/05, Jeroen Zwartepoorte <jeroen zwartepoorte gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So i've built the latest NM stuff today to make sure i'm up-to-date.
> I've had very good success with NM + ipw2200 so far. Until now:
> frequently it doesn't even detect any wireless networks (iwlist eth1
> scanning turns up the wireless network fine). Just now i had my laptop
> sitting idle for > half an hour and suddenly i notice the wireless key
> request dialog. It somehow suddenly "found" the wireless network and
> was trying to connect. It didn't succeed however: it looks like it
> gets a timeout on the DHCP request. See the attached excerpts from the
> logs.
>
> Any ideas? I have the latest libnl packages (rebuilt with pre5). Do i
> need some sort of newer dhcdbd packages?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeroen
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