Re: Problems solved, well, almost

[Ryan Skadberg <skadz1 gmail com>]

FYI, I confirmed that switching my AP to an Open System and NM started
working perfectly.

Skadz


On 2/7/06, Ryan Skadberg <skadz1 gmail com> wrote:
> Problem A:
>
> I was seeing these dbus errors:
>
> NetworkManager: <WARNING>        nm_dbus_get_network_data_cb ():
> nm_dbus_get_network_data_cb(): dbus returned an error.
>   (org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo.InvalidArguments)
> nmi_dbus_get_network_properties called with invalid arguments.
>
> After playing around a bit, I realized these were being caused by all
> the old APs in gconf.  Once I erased them in gconf's
> system/networking/wireless directory, these errors went away.  May be
> something to look in to, maybe we need to convert old APs?
>
> Problem B:
>
> No connection to my AP.  :(  So, I tried doing a standard ifup and
> then using NetworkManager and looked at the iwconfig output.  When I
> did this, I saw this with ifup:
>
>           Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX   Security
> mode:restricted
>
> And then this with NetworkManager:
>
>           Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX   Security mode:open
>
> When I run the applet, I am picking Shared Key, which I thought would
> set the Security mode to restricted correctly (I'm sure it did in the
> past) and now it seems to not set this right.  Sounds like a bug to
> me.  Thoughts?
>
> Skadz
>