Re: NetworkManager and rt2x00

[Sam Morris <sam robots org uk>]

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:46:50 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I misread what you asked above. I meant that I am able to associate
if I avoid NM and wpa_supplicant alltogether and do this:

 # ip link set up dev wlan0
 # iwlist wlan0 scan
 # iwconfig wlan0 ssid morris1
 # iwconfig wlan0 key $wep_key
 # iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:30:BD:FD:B7:87

I am also able to associate if I tell NM to connect to the network and
then quickly issue just the 'iwconfig ap' command above.

>> > If you need instructions on doing this I can provide them

I can try this for you if you let me know what commands to issue.

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