Re: NM does not work with iwl4965 device

[Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus tmus dk>]

Jerone Young wrote:
> It works fine for me. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 and I am using
> Ubuntu Gutsy (which has NM 0.65). I am using WPA 2 at home with my
> Linksys WRTGL router. I have been using the drivers for some time and
> Network manager has not had any issue working with them.
> Here is the version of intel driver I am currently using
>
> iwplwifi: 0.1.5
> iwlwifi-4965-ucode: 4.44.1.18
> mac80211: 9.0.2

OK, so I narrowed it down a bit...

un-hiding the AP solves the problem. I get a steady connection quickly, 
with ESSID broadcast enabled. No connection at all with ESSID bcast 
disabled.

I've changed my network settings to be WPA2 AES/CCMP only.

iwconfig/wpa_supplicant/dhclient manually works very well on hidden as 
well as visible setup.

These are exempts from the messages log showing where the connection 
differences happen:

good:
Aug  5 22:20:43 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 
2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Aug  5 22:20:45 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  nm-netlink-monitor.c - 
nm_netlink_monitor_event_handler (724) netlink reports device wlan0 link 
now 0
Aug  5 22:20:45 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  nm-device.c - 
nm_device_set_active_link (596) device wlan0 link state set to 1
Aug  5 22:20:45 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  Activation 
(wlan0/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful.  Connected 
to access point 'mynet'.
Aug  5 22:20:45 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 
3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled.

bad:
Aug  5 18:36:18 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 
2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Aug  5 18:36:58 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  Activation 
(wlan0/wireless): association took too long (>40s), failing activation.
Aug  5 18:36:58 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) 
failure scheduled...
Aug  5 18:36:58 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) 
failed for access point (mynet)
Aug  5 18:36:58 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed.
Aug  5 18:36:58 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device wlan0.
Aug  5 18:36:59 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  nm-netlink-monitor.c - 
nm_netlink_monitor_event_handler (724) netlink reports device wlan0 link 
now 0
Aug  5 18:37:06 whipher NetworkManager: <info>  nm-netlink-monitor.c - 
nm_netlink_monitor_event_handler (724) netlink reports device wlan0 link 
now 0


Does this point in a certain direction for anyone?

/Thomas