Re: NetworkManager and rt2x00

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:19 +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 20:29 -0500, Darren Albers wrote: 
> > While I am not an expert I do see a lot of strange messages and it
> > doesn't look like the card is even able to associate:
> > Dec  4 19:04:20 xerces NetworkManager:
> > <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(2730): wpa_driver_wext_associate
> > Dec  4 19:04:20 xerces NetworkManager:
> > <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(2730): Association request to the driver
> > failed
> > 
> > Two questions:
> > 1) Can you associate by stopping NetworkManager and bringing up
> > WPA_Supplicant manually?
> 
> Yes. I therefore assume that the rt2x00 driver has some idiosyncrasies
> that prevent the commands that are issued by NM from working.

Can you post the command that you use to execute wpa_supplicant?

Dan

> > If you need instructions on doing this I can provide them
> > 
> > 2) The older rt2x00 drivers support WEP and unencrypted networks and
> > since you are only using WEP wouldn't it be better to step back and
> > use those drivers since they seem to work?
> 
> Indeed, I currently use them. I only wanted to try out rt2x00 so that I
> would be able to use NM. :) 
> 
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