Re: NM does not work with iwl4965 device

[Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus tmus dk>]

Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> I've been experimenting a bit tonight and this is what I've found.
>
> AP_SCAN 2 : ESSID is set on the wireless device, but it never 
> associates. Presumably because it cannot find the AP.
>
> AP_SCAN 1: ESSID does NOT get set on the wireless device, so does not 
> work alone - during the device setup phase, if you issue an "iwconfig 
> wlan0 essid whatever", the device will associate fine.
>
> So I made a patch to incorporate the two and to prove a point. :)
>
> Please note, that this patch is intended to prove that the association 
> to hidden IS possible, even with ipw4965 devices. The patch changes the 
> AP_SCAN value for hidden networks and I have no clue as to what that 
> will do for other wireless devices. Also, since I've not gotten 
> acquainted to very much of the NetworkManager code, there might be 
> better places to put some of these things. So it should at the very 
> least be reviewed by someone more familiar with the code than myself. 
> (there - the disclaimer is double the size of the patch itself ;-p)
>
> Try it out and let me know how it works for you.
>
> My testing was performed on Fedora 7 - 0.6.5 version of NetworkManager. 
> Obviously 0.6.5 is also the version that this patch is most likely to 
> apply to.
>
> Good luck. Patch below!
>
> /Thomas

Peter opened a bug on this problem - Gnome BUG #464215

/Thomas