Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

[David Abrahams <dave boost-consulting com>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:42 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
>> When I saw your post I read the logs but didn't see anything that
>> would indicate a problem.  I vaguely remember some issues with hidden
>> SSID's that were fixed in 0.6.3 that the Ubuntu maintainer may not
>> have backported.  Can you try broadcasting your SSID and see if it
>> works?
>
> That would be a big help.  Some drivers (madwifi in particular) don't
> seem to work well with hidden SSIDs and wpa_supplicant and
> NetworkManager, and that interaction isn't well understood.  It has
> something to do with AP_SCAN and the network options that are passed to
> wpa_supplicant.
>
> Can you try with wpa_supplicant alone, constructing the necessary
> wpa_supplicant.conf, and see if that works?  Please use the 'wext'
> driver with wpa_suppliant.  

Could you point me at some detailed instructions?  I don't know how to
"try with wpa_supplicant alone" or set up its drivers.
Should I do this with or without hidden SSIDs?  With the Ubuntu
release, or something newer?

> If you're able to connect fairly consistently, please post that
> config file, removing sensitive information of course.

OK

>> > I am using Ubuntu Dapper, on which there is seemingly no
>> > wpa_supplicant.conf, which makes it pretty hard to relate any
>> > documentation I read to actual diagnosis on my machine.
>> 
>> No need to post that, that is only needed if you are using some
>> unusual EAP combination.
>
> Unless you can get it working with plain wpa_supplicant, that is.  There
> have been some intermittent issues with the config which NM sends to
> wpa_supplicant not connecting, but a plain wpa_supplicant config doing
> fine.  I'm sort of holding off on looking into that until we move to a
> dbus-enabled wpa_supplicant to determine whether it's the control
> interface stupidity, or NM itself passing wrong combinations of options.

Oh, NM sends config to wpa_supplicant directly?

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