Re: Network Manager drops wireless connections

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 21:34 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using networkmanager for a while now, and in general have found it
> to work well. However, recently it seems to have developed a problem. When
> running a wireless connection it drops the connection every now and then. I
> can sometimes reconnect by just clicking on the desired network again, but
> sometimes I have to restart NetworkManager itself.
> 
> System :- Fedora Core 4, fully updated
> NM 0.5.1
> kernel 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
> wireless is ipw2100 (1.1.0 built into kernel)
> 
> The contents of messages, related to NetworkManager are pasted below.
> 
> Does anyone else get this ? Could it be related to the firmware I am using,
> which was updated a short time ago ? - I am using the freshrpms rpm package
> ipw2100-firmware (1.3-2). Could it instead be related to my wireless router 
> (although nothing has changed there) ?

When the device is up, does 'iwlist eth1 scan' show any results?  If it
does, but NM doesn't, then I think that's a bug in NM.

Dan