Re: Unable to connect to wireless

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 04/02/07 11:42:13, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > On 04/02/07 09:42:07, Patrick Bogen wrote:
> >> On 4/2/07, Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net> wrote:
> >>> NetworkManager fails to connect to my Netgear router. Hardware
> >>> function
> >>> has been confirmed (Windoze (sigh!)) I expect that's its a config
> >>> problem - where should I look? Here's the relevant section of the
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> >>> log.
> >>> NetworkManager: <information>   SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK
> 0
> >>> ssid 4e657467656172'
> >> My first guess would be that 'NetworkManager: <information>   SUP:
> >> sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 ssid 4e657467656172'' is causing
> >> problems.. Since, from what I can tell, 'Netgear' is your SSID, not
> >> 4e657.... I don't know why this might be happening, however.
> >> If you associate manually (stop networkmanager, then: iwconfig eth0
> >> ssid Netgear; dhclient eth0) does it work and give you an IP?
> >
> > No joy, but perhaps some data.
> >
> > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:d2:2d:f2:76
> > Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:19:d2:2d:f2:76
> > Sending on   Socket/fallback
> > DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> > ip length 326 disagrees with bytes received 534.
> > accepting packet with data after udp payload.
> > DHCPACK from 192.168.10.1
> > bound to 192.168.10.2 -- renewal in 42837 seconds.
> >
> > and in the kernel log, this is repeated.
> >
> > Apr  2 11:15:47 mtranch-mobile kernel: Unknown OutputIN= OUT=eth0
> > SRC=192.168.10.2 DST=64.97.131.50 LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64
> > ID=8188 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=36661 DPT=110 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN
> URGP=0
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> The last part is from IPTables.

My problem apparently results from an incompatibly between Fedora  
Network Manager and the wireless card installed on the laptop and open  
wireless networks. The vendor could have mentioned this earlier, I  
suppose. :-(