Fwd: NetworkManager no-go

[Yasha Karant <ykarant yahoo com>]

I have been informed that the behavior below evidently is a bug
in NetworkManager.  I am using NetworkManager Applet 0.6.4 under 
RHEL 5, and NetworkManager  and NetworkManagerDispatcher 0.6.5 .  

NetworkManager did not offer me any choices in network, nor did it change from the pre-existing channel 11 under the circumstances
below.

Is this a  bug?  If so, what is the fix?

> I have now tried NetworkManager on the University 802.11g from my office.  No go.
>
> Here is the output from scan (I wrote a small script to run the scan
> and remind me that I needed to be root for the scan to work -- output
> captured via script in a typescript file):
>
> Script started on Tue 04 Dec 2007 11:34:40 AM PST
> ^[]0;ykarant localhost:~^G[ykarant localhost ~]$
>  su
> Password:
> ^[]0;ykarant localhost:/home/ykarant^G[root localhost ykarant]# ./iwlist-scan
>
> You need to be root to get a current scan
>
> eth1      Scan completed :
>           Cell 01 - Address: 00:12:00:51:BC:60
>                     ESSID:"CSUSB"
>                     Protocol:IEEE  802.11bg
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Channel:1
>                     Encryption
>  key:off
>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
>                               11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
>                               48 Mb/s; 54  Mb/s
>                     Quality=82/100  Signal level=-48 dBm
>                     Extra: Last beacon: 27ms ago
>           Cell 02 - Address:
>  00:15:F9:A6:76:80
>                     ESSID:"CSUSB"
>                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
>                     Mode:Master
>                      Channel:6
>                     Encryption key:off
>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9
>  Mb/s
>                               11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
>                               48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>                     Quality=31/100  Signal level=-81  dBm
>                     Extra: Last beacon: 724ms ago
>           Cell 03 - Address: 00:1B:54:25:15:80
>                    
>  ESSID:"CSUSB"
>                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Channel:6
>                     Encryption  key:off
>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
>                               11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36
>  Mb/s
>                               48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>                     Quality=44/100  Signal level=-74 dBm
>                     Extra: Last beacon: 1058ms ago
>
> ^[]0;ykarant localhost:/home/ykarant^G[root localhost ykarant]#  exit
> exit
> ^[]0;ykarant localhost:~^G[ykarant localhost ~]$ Gexit
> exit
>
> At home, using /usr/sbin/system-config-network-gui (that does the same thing as manually editing the files, reloading, etc.), the WLAN is set to channel 11.  NetworkManager only showed one CSUSB WLAN, and refused to connect.  system-config-network-gui showed that the WNIC was still on channel 11.  I
>  manually changed this via
> system-config-network-gui to channel 1 (please see the scan above), and everything worked, including NetworkManager.  However, NetworkManager would not automatically go to channel 1 nor would it allow me to choose channels.
>
> Is this fixable via a NetworkManager post-build configuration file?  Is this fixable via a NetworkManager configuration file that is used during the build process?

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