Re: Warning message "can't monitor the supplicant"

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 03:10 -0800, Paolo Casaschi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried installing network-manager (with gnome applet) on Ubuntu Edgy (version in the repos, just did apt-get).
> 
> My wireless card is a Linksys WPC54Gv5 (Marvell chipset) using ndiswrapper (again version from the repos).
> 
> While with other wifi managers (such as wifi-radar) everything works fine and I can connect to my access point using WAP, if I try network-manager I cant get a connection.
> 
> If I try connecting to my access point, I get the popup window asking for the WAP key, but then the conneciton fails.
> The log at some point shows a warning like: "can't monitor the supplicant", then not much else until it fails connecting.

NM could not attach to the control interface after starting the
supplicant.  It might be a permissions issue, or the control interface
socket's directory doesn't exist, or something.

Dan

> Anything that should be done because of that error message?
> It looks like wpa_supplicant is not invoked with the correct options? Or the card does not support the functionality required by network-manager?
> 
> What I noticed is that with wifi-radar it takes quite a long time for the connection to be established.
> I wonder if there is a way to let network-manager wait a bit longer for the connection to be established, before just giving up...
> 
> Any help appreciated,
> 
> -- Paolo
> 
> 
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