Re: nm madwifi and wpa_supplicant

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

Based on this post by Dan Williams:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-May/msg00230.html
The workaround for madwifi was removed from the FC5 packages.  You should look into upgrading your Madwifi driver to a version that supports the latest WEXT or compiling NM by hand and adding back the patch.

On 5/29/06, Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com> wrote:

Hi,

I have an FC5 laptop with a Proxim wireless card. I installed the madwifi
0.9.0 drivers with wpa_supplicant version wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.fc5.

My access point is using wpa encryption. If I configure wpa_supplicant
manually everything works OK. The problem is that nm does not see the wireless
card at all. As a result if I am on a wired network and try to switch to
wireless things do not get setup properly. Routes etc. need to be added by hand
or I need to reboot. As I am typing this I am on wireless but the nm icon says
the network is disconnected.

(bullwinkle pts14) $ rpm -qa | grep -i networkmanager
NetworkManager-glib-0.6.2-2.fc5
NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.2-2.fc5
NetworkManager-0.6.2-2.fc5
(bullwinkle pts14) $

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
        Subsystem: PROXIM Inc Unknown device 0a40
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size 20
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at 34000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

What do I need to do to get nm to see my wireless card?

Regards,

Tom Diehl               tdiehl rogueind com              Spamtrap address mtd123 rogueind com
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