Re: Association timeout with madwifi

["Adam Lindberg" <eproxus gmail com>]

I believe it is a problem with the madwifi driver, seems as though
they do not support the WEXT protocols, which is odd. I thought they
did.

How do I set it up manually with wpa_supplicant?

On 6/28/06, Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Adam Lindberg wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using the latest CVS of NetworkManager, the latest development
> > snapshot of madwifi-ng (r1654) and the latest development snapshot of
> > wpa_supplicant (0.5.4). When trying to connect to my WPA encrypted
> > access point this happens:
> >
> > Is there any way to fix this?
> >
>
> If you figure it out I too would like to know. For me NM never sees my
> madwifi card. If I start wpa_supplicant by hand, the card comes up and will
> play for days with wpa encryption enabled. If I do not start wpa_supplicant
> by hand the card never completes the connection. Unless I plug in a network
> cable, the NM icon always shows a circle with a slash through it.
>
> I asked about this problem a few weeks ago, was asked to supply some info
> but I never heard anything after I sent the info.
>
> I am running the following versions of nm and wpa_supplicant:
> (bullwinkle pts3) $ rpm -qa | grep -i networkmanager
> NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.3-1.fc5
> NetworkManager-glib-0.6.3-1.fc5
> NetworkManager-0.6.3-1.fc5
>
> (bullwinkle pts3) $ rpm -qa | grep -i wpa
> wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.fc5
>
> (bullwinkle pts3) $ rpm -qa | grep net-tool
> net-tools-1.60-62.1
>
> (bullwinkle pts3) $ rpm -qa | grep mad
> madwifi-0.1645.20060615-6
> madwifi-module-0.1645.20060615-6_2.6.17_1.2139_FC5
>
> This is a fully updated FC5 dell 2650 laptop.
>
> I also see the following in the logs continously:
>
> Jun 28 13:53:27 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: ath0: ignoring event
> Jun 28 13:53:27 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: No interface name
> Jun 28 13:53:27 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: Callback failed
> Jun 28 13:53:30 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: No interface name
> Jun 28 13:53:30 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: Callback failed
>
> Does the card work for you if you start wpa_supplicant by hand??
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom


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