Re: WPA Supplicant *CAN* connect, but NetworkManager can't.

[Michael Wilber <hotdog003 gmail com>]

Darren Albers wrote:
> On 8/16/07, Michael Wilber <hotdog003 gmail com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello! I'm using a Zonet ZEW1602 wireless card using ndiswrapper in
>> Ubuntu Feisty.
>>
>> If I do 'wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 ' [...], then I can't
>> connect, as usual.
>> If I do 'wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0' [...], then I can.
>>
>> NetworkManager still can't. I talked with some of the devs on
>> #ndiswrapper, and they say that -Dndiswrapper has been depreciated for
>> quite some time. Is this a bug, and if so, how do I report it?
>>     
>
> This might be a Feisty specific bug, NetworkManager will always use
> WEXT and not the device specific driver however a number of
> distributions patched NetworkManager to use the device specific driver
> for some cards.   Two drivers that many Distro's patched for were
> NDISwrapper and Madwifi.
>
> I know that Ubuntu used to ship these patches but I don't know if they
> still do, can you grab the Ubuntu source (apt-get source
> network-manager) and look in the debian/patches directory and see if
> one of the patches sends -Dndiswrapper instead of -Dwext?
>   
I can't find anything, I'm afraid.

Here's the list of patches that ubuntu applies:
01-supplicant_timeout.patch
02-dbus_access_network_manager.patch
04-if_fix.patch
05-debian_backend.patch
06-dispatch_more_events.patch
09_fix_bigendian_words.patch
10-po_fr.patch
11-man_page_sh_name.patch
12_dbus1.0.patch
13-rml-wpa-workarounds.patch
14-j-hostap-supplicant-driver.patch
16_undefined_macros.patch
17_avahi_autoipd.patch
18_static_network-admin.patch
19_interfaces_can_have_more_than_one_instance.patch
20_do_not_take_over_dhcpv4iface_when_v6_is_configured.patch
21_manual_means_always_online.diff
22_manual_config_available_when_connected.patch

None of them mention ndiswrapper. The 13-rml-wpa-workarounds.patch,
however, does change wext to madwifi, although I don't think it's related.

If you'd like, I can do an strace on network manager.