Re: NM doesn't scan for networks...

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 13:04 +0100, Shogun wrote:
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> Hi guys!
> I download the today CVS version of NM. It doesn't scan any wireless
> network...The applet works and so the wired device, but the wireless
> device (ipw3945 doesn't works...)
> Why? I'm on Gentoo, with DBUS 1.0...
> 

Right.  Because HEAD is in the middle of a transition to talking to
wpa_supplicant over DBus rather than spawning a copy and using the
control socket.  You probably don't want to use HEAD for a bit.

You'll need a copy of wpa_supplicant 0.5.5 or later to make this
half-work; see the following for a full explanation:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-November/msg00198.html

Dan

> Here's the output of NetworkManager --no-daemon:
> 
> NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
> NetworkManager: <info>  New VPN service 'ppp'
> (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.ppp_starter).
> NetworkManager: <info>  New VPN service 'openvpn'
> (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn).
> NetworkManager: <info>  New VPN service 'vpnc'
> (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc).
> NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_system_device_get_system_config(): data good :-)
> NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_system_device_get_system_config(): Broadcast
> set to: 0.0.0.255
> NetworkManager: <info>  eth2: Device is fully-supported using driver
> 'ipw3945'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker
> thread to start
> NetworkManager: <info>  nm_device_init(): device's worker thread
> started, continuing.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'eth2'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth2.
> NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_system_device_get_system_config(): data good :-)
> NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_system_device_get_system_config(): Broadcast
> set to: 0.0.0.255
> NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'tg3'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker
> thread to start
> NetworkManager: <info>  nm_device_init(): device's worker thread
> started, continuing.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth0.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Updating allowed wireless network lists.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Updating VPN Connections...
> 
> Thank you for your help...
> Bye bye!
>   Shogun
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