Re: Problems with Networkmanager + Madwifing



Yeah, that worked for me. I compiled madwifi+wpa+libnl+Networkmanager
from scratch, I now it goes fine. It didn't try encryption, but I will
do that later.

greetings + thanks
fabian

Jacob schrieb:
> Guys, I think I've found a solution, thanks to Darren. If you have been
> having issues connecting to wireless networks, even though they are
> listed, then this could be the answer!
> 
> Compile from scratch, and don't use the one provided in the repositories.
> If this works, I'll post a bug report.
> 
> On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:26:29 -0400, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I am confused, you said you were running Network-Manager from Ubuntu,
>> so you compiled Network-Manager from source already?  You said
>> Sourceforge but network-manager is hosted at gnome.org:
>> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager/0.6/
>>
>> On 8/6/06, Jacob <fun2program8 yahoo com> wrote:
>>> I already did this. I have compiled from scratch. Straight from
>>> sourceforge.net
>>>
>>> On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:13:38 -0400, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had similar problems when I used the latest madwifi drivers.  I
>>>> /think/ it had something to do with the workarounds patch applied to
>>>> the version of Network-Manager in Ubuntu.  The madwifi drivers shipped
>>>> with Ubuntu are older and did not support the latest WEXT so a
>>>> work-around had to be applied to Network-Manager.  I think this
>>>> workaround causes problems with the newer version of Madwifi that does
>>>> support WEXT.
>>>>
>>>> Your best bet would be to remove the package from Ubuntu and compile
>>>> Network-Manager from source, the ubuntuforums howto section has a good
>>>> walkthrough on this.  There is also a problem with the way the madwifi
>>>> drivers report their signal strength, a workaround was posted by
>>>> Robert Love around 6 months ago (This workaround is included in the
>>>> Ubuntu package), you should probably apply that patch.  If you can't
>>>> find that patch post here and I will dig it up for you.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> NetworkManager-list mailing list
>>>> NetworkManager-list gnome org
>>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> From,
>>> Jacob
>>>
> 
> 
> 


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