Re: Could not connect to the supplicant

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

Have you tried the patches posted here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-March/msg00068.html

Robert Love posted a patch that contains some driver specific
workarounds that are needed for a number of drivers that do not
support WEXT completely or have some other issue.  His post mentions
NDISWrapper specifically.

On 3/12/06, Jeroen Roeper <jeroen roeper xs4all nl> wrote:
> Oh, and I forgot to mention that I am using ndiswrapper with a broadcom
> BCM4318 wireless adapter.
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 11:26 +0800, Jeroen Roeper wrote:
> > Well,
> >
> > After a long time trying and tweaking its time for me to post to the
> > list. I have NetworkManager up and running on my laptop. For my wired
> > network its doing what its supposed to do but it does not connect to any
> > wireless network. I keep getting the following line in my logs:
> >
> > NetworkManager: <WARNING>  real_act_stage2_config (): Activation
> > (wlan0/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant.
> >
> > I assume that NM tries to connect to the supplicant using the dirs
> > in /var/run/ which are all there... wpa_supplicant &
> > wpa_supplicant-global. Both are empty though.
> >
> > When I try to start wpa_supplicant by hand it works fine... via NM it
> > does not seem to do anything.
> >
> > I am running the following versions although I tried various other
> > versions and combinations. All the same problem.
> >
> > NetworkManager 0.6.0
> > wpa_supplicant 0.5.1
> >
> > If anyone has any idea let me know. Because at the moment I believe NM
> > is making networking only more difficult then easier :)
> >
> > Jeroen
> >
> >
> >
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