Re: NM Not Seeing Available Networks

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 08:41 -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've been running 0.6.x while using Dapper.  I have since upgraded to
> Dapper stable with NM 0.6.3.
> 
> The problem I'm having is that for some reason, NetworkManager isn't
> scanning for the available networks when first launched.  I have to
> manually do a 'iwlist eth1 scan' several times until finally I get
> prompted for my keychain password to connect to our WPA2 network.
> 
> >From where I'm at, there are 8 different networks that iwlist finds, but
> nm-applet initially only shows only one network and doesn't try to
> connect to it.  After I finish my scanning, nm-applet then properly
> shows all the available networks.
> 
> My wireless card is an Intel and I'm using the ipw2200 driver.  I have a
> co-worker who is also running Dapper but with the NetworkManager 0.6.2
> deb's, also with the ipw2200 driver, and is having the same problem.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a NM issue, or a driver issue, but I figure I
> would start here since it would be easier for me to debug ;)
> 
> Any ideas where I can start debugging the issue?  This only happens upon
> a fresh boot, so I'm not sure what would be the best way to go about this.

Stop the NetworkManager service, then as root do:

/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon

wait about 30s or so, then send the output to the list.

Dan