Re: NetworkManager won't connect on FC6 box

[Tony Falcone <afalcone alum mit edu>]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 09:16 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 20:20 -0500, Tony Falcone wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > With regards to this message:
> > 
> > > Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:02:32 -0500
> > > From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
> > > Subject: Re: No IPv6 routers present
> > > 
> > 
> > >         On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 22:49 +0800, Deepan wrote:
> > >         > Hello All,
> > >         >   I use Fedora Core 6. I had been using /etc/init.d/network
> > >         script and system-config-network GUI to configure and connect
> > >         to wifi all these days. Installed NetworkManager recently and
> > >         it provides a very good interface.
> > >         
> > >         > I am able to connect to my office wifi (we use wpa2) when
> > >         run
> > >         > "/etc/init.d/network start" script.  But I am unable to
> > >         connect using NetworkManager. Everytime I connect using my
> > >         network manager I find that the dmesg reports a error "eth1:
> > >         No IPv6 routers present". 
> > >         
> > >         > I want NetworkManager to force use IPv4 or fallback to IPv4
> > >         if IPv6 is not found. I am new to IPv6 and IPv4 terms. I may
> > >         be wrong in my description. Can anyone suggest me a solution. 
> > > 
> > > NM doesn't support IPv6 quite yet...  Can you post some logs of NM
> > > trying to connect to your WPA2 access point?  They are dumped
> > > to /var/log/messages.
> > > 
> > 
> > I am having the saem type of problem: I am using FC6, kernel
> > 2.6.17-1.2849.fc6, and cannot connect to my (wide open, no encryption,
> > etc.) wireless home network using NetworkManager.  I can do so "by
> > hand," e.g., by issuing
> 
> Which card & driver is this?
> 
> Dan
> 
>From 'dmesg' output:

        natsemi dp8381x driver, version 2.0, June 27, 2006
          originally by Donald Becker <becker scyld com>
          http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
          2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder

        orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson <hermes gibson dropbear id au>, Pavel
        Roskin <proski gnu org>, et al)
        orinoco_pci 0.15 (Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>, David Gibson
        <hermes gibson dropbear id au> & Jean Tourrilhes
        <jt hpl hp com>)
        

>From output of 'lspci -v':

        00:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5
        Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
                Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0200
                Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
                Memory at d000a000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
                Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        
>From 'lsmod':

        orinoco_pci            11853  0 
        orinoco                44373  1 orinoco_pci
        hermes                 11585  2 orinoco_pci,orinoco
        
Any other info you need, I will be happy to provide.

Thanks again,

Tony