Re: NM Not Seeing Available Networks

["Mike Bydalek" <mbydalek contentconnections com>]

Hi Dan,

Dan Williams wrote:

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 08:41 -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote:
  

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.


    

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.
  

Here's the output from the first few minutes actually.


NetworkManager: <information>   starting...
NetworkManager: <information>   Adding VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' with name 'openvpn' and progr am '/usr/local/bin/nm-openvpn-service'
NetworkManager: <information>   Adding VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' with name 'vpnc' and program '/u sr/local/bin/nm-vpnc-service'
NetworkManager: <information>   Adding VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' with name 'pptp' and program '/u sr/local/bin/nm-pptp-service'
NetworkManager: <information>   eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'b44'.
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
NetworkManager: <information>   Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
NetworkManager: <information>   Deactivating device eth0.
NetworkManager: <information>   eth1: Device is fully-supported using driver 'ipw2200'.
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
NetworkManager: <information>   Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'eth1'.
NetworkManager: <information>   Deactivating device eth1.
NetworkManager: <information>   Updating allowed wireless network lists.


That's it.  It just sits there waiting.  When I do 'iwlist eth1 scan' a few times, then finally it tries to connect ...

NetworkManager: <information>   SWITCH: no current connection, found better connection 'eth1'.
NetworkManager: <information>   Will activate connection 'eth1/Core'.
NetworkManager: <information>   Device eth1 activation scheduled...
NetworkManager: <information>   Activation (eth1) started...
etc.
etc.

Thanks.

-Mike