Re: Trying to start the supplicant...

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 16:08 +0200, krash wrote:
> Hi friends,
> I have a trouble with NetworkManager on my Slackware 12.0.
> I have a notebook with bcm4318 wireless chipset; wireless is powered
> by ndiswrapper.

You need to either:

1) install dbus 1.1.0 or higher with system bus activation capability
2) start wpa_supplicant as a service at startup with the "-u" option

Dan

> When I start NetworkManager with option no-daemon and this is a log:
> 
> NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
> NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'r8169'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device eth0
> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth0.
> NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: Device is fully-supported using driver
> 'ndiswrapper'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'wlan0'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device wlan0
> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device wlan0.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
> 
> >From nm-applet i can select only wired network (eth0); wireless
> network is empty.
> If i launch wpa_supplicant with standard option, i can connect without
> any problem.
> Any idea?
> Regards,
> kad
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