Re: wpa_supplicant

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 06:23 -0500, jim lawrence wrote:
> On 3/28/06, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 16:58 -0500, jim lawrence wrote:
> > > Hello Folks  First post
> > > I would like to enable the wpa_supplicant support into my wireless. I
> > > can change the AP's Security settings to the attahed image.  When
> > > doing so i cannot connect. The applet just sits and spins.  I start
> > > the wpasupplicant service and still unable to connect.
> > >
> > > NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.0-3
> > > NetworkManager-0.6.0-3
> > > NetworkManager-glib-0.6.0-3
> > >
> > > Wireless Device ipw2200
> >
> > Can you provide output from NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant, either by
> > attaching syslog output or running NM with the "--no-daemon" argument
> > and trying to connect?
> >
> The attached img is the settings on the AP
> 
> [root localhost jim]# su -
> [root localhost ~]# NetworkManager --no-daemon
> NetworkManager: <information>   starting...
> NetworkManager: <WARNING>        nm_dbus_init (): nm_dbus_init() could
> not acquire the NetworkManager service as it is already taken (ret=3).
> Is the daemon already running?
> NetworkManager: <ERROR> [1143630876.840500] main (): nm_dbus_init()
> failed, exiting. Either dbus is not running, or the NetworkManager
> dbus security policy was not loaded.
> NetworkManager: traceback:
> NetworkManager:         NetworkManager(main+0x44a) [0x8067eba]
> NetworkManager:         /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x13a7e4]
> NetworkManager:         NetworkManager [0x80530c1]
> Trace/breakpoint trap
> [root localhost ~]#

You probably need to 'service NetworkManager stop' the already-running
service first, then re-run NM with --no-daemon.  This error message
tells me that there's already a copy running.

Dan