Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:14 -0500, Ryan Skadberg 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? > > Ran into this issue the other day, it appears that earlier version > didn't have the 'key_type' parameter, which we use to validate the > entry. I'm not entirely sure how to proceed here, but it's not that > hard of a problem. > >> 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: > > What distribution? Are you using NM from CVS? What wpa_supplicant > version are you using? What card and driver again? Is it still the > 3-year-old Linksys you mentioned from the "Activation too long" thread? > > There's an error in wpa_supplicant right now (though I've patched it in > Fedora Core rawhide) that prevents wpa_supplicant from setting the > correct auth mode on cards & drivers that don't support ENCODEEXT and > AUTH extensions. This might be your problem. > > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/devel/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-auth-fallback-v3.patch Very interesting. I also had the problem, that I got this "Activation took too long" messages, regardless how high I set the timeout. I used the latest NM from CVS, the ipw2100 driver (kernel 2.6.16-rc2) and wpa_supplicant-0.5.1. The wlan access point was a SMC 2804WBR. I don't know exactly but I guess it is also something like three years old. I couldn't get a connection with NM while running wpa_supplicant directly it worked (although it sometimes takes very long >>1min). With a newer access point NM works fine. After reading your post I decided to apply this patch and test the old access point again, and voila, it worked. Dan, could this be a common problem of many older wlan access points? And do you intend to send this patch for wpa_supplicant upstream? Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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