Re: Network Manager problem connecting to open wireless network.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 09:24 +0100, Diego Gonz�z wrote:
> On 2/1/06, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 00:19 +0100, Diego Gonz�z wrote:
> > > since some weeks ago i have noticed that Network Manager is not able
> > > to connect to the open wireless network available in the place i work,
> > > it tries it but it can't manage it. However if i write (as root) on
> > > the console ifup eth1 everything works, so it must be a NM problem, i
> > > have also changed dhcp3 or dhcbdb.
> > >
> > > Today i updated NM from CVS, the error is still there, so i guess this
> > > is a problem if you intend to release shortly.
> > > command 'INTERFACE_ADD eth1^I^Iwext^I/var/run/wpa_supplicant^I'
> > > Jan 31 20:34:13 calisto NetworkManager: <information>^ISUP: response was 'OK'
> > > Jan 31 20:34:13 calisto NetworkManager: <information>^ISUP: sending
> > > command 'AP_SCAN 2'
> > > Jan 31 20:34:13 calisto NetworkManager: <information>^ISUP: response
> > > was 'UNKNOWN COMMAND'
> >
> > You need a more recent version of wpa_supplicant actually.  Jouni
> > committed the AP_SCAN patch about a week ago.
> 
> by the way, even if it is needed configure should check if the version
> is new enough, configure did not complain at all with the
> wpa_supplicant version that i have installed.

AFAIK we're still tracking CVS wpa_supplicant here...  I'm not sure of a
clean way to detect that.  I don't think he's released anything yet with
these patches, I could be wrong though.

Dan