Re: NetworkManager does not work with my ipw3945 network card

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 12:30 +0100, Piotr Wawrzyniak wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I am using hp laptop with fc6. It has the intel wireles network card, that is 
> supported under linux (ipw3945 driver). I managed to set the network 
> manually. Both secure (wep, wpa, wpa2) as well as nonsecure connections works 
> very well. But when I use networkmanager I am not able to connect to network.
> 
> The log from the networkmanager can be found at: http://piti.vsv.pl/log.txt.
> It seems that wpa_supplicant has some problems with connection ('AP_SCAN 1'.  
> Response: 'UNKNOWN COMMAND' ), but on the another hand when I do i manually I 
> can connect without any problem. When nonsecure network is set, the log look 
> the same.

If you see UNKNOWN COMMAND, you'll need an updated version of
wpa_supplicant (0.5.x or later) or a patched version of 0.4.x that
accepts the AP_SCAN command.  Your usage of a wrong version of
wpa_supplicant means that NM will fail to connect to _anything_.

Dan

> [piotr localhost]~% rpm -q NetworkManager wpa_supplicant
> NetworkManager-0.6.4-5.fc6
> wpa_supplicant-0.4.9-15.fc6.at
> 
> What can be wrong?
> 
> Best regards
> Piotr.
> 
> 
> 
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