Re: cAtivation (eth0/wireless): couldn't send wireless configuration to the supplicant.

[Joan Moreau <joan moreau m4x org>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 23:43 +0200, Joan Moreau wrote:
>   
> > Hello
> >
> > Can anybody help me ?
> >
> > I switched to Ubuntu 6.10 (from 6.06)
> > in 6.06, all finally worked well ,whereas in 6.10 I have the following 
> > error:
> >
> > Jan  5 23:39:43 mangue NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) started...
> > Jan  5 23:39:43 mangue NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 1 
> > of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
> > Jan  5 23:39:43 mangue NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 1 
> > of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
> > Jan  5 23:39:43 mangue NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 2 
> > of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
> > Jan  5 23:39:43 mangue NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 1 
> > of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
> > Jan  5 23:39:43 mangue NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 2 
> > of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
> > Jan  5 23:39:43 mangue NetworkManager: <info>  Activation 
> > (eth0/wireless): access point 'default' is unencrypted, no key needed.
> > Jan  5 23:39:43 mangue NetworkManager: 
> > nm_supplicant_interface_set_config: assertion `self != NULL' failed
> >     
>
> ^^^^^ this line says you're using a development version of
> NetworkManager.  Is that correct?  If so, the development version
> (trunk, or CVS HEAD) isn't yet ready for general consumption, and you
> should probably stick with what Ubuntu already provides.  I don't know
> what version the Ubuntu package maintainers decided to stick in 6.10,
> but if they are using anything from trunk (ie, 0.7-based) then that's a
> Bad Thing right now.
>
>   
The version provided by Ubuntu (0.6.3) just says "No network devices 
found". I guess they did not test the software before releasing it.
0.6.4 and 0.7 are acting the same way, stating an error on the supplicant..

Any ideas ?