Re: Cannot connect to any WLAN with NM-Fedora 7-ndiswrapper

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 16:01 -0400, Andrew Pegram wrote:
> Sorry I took so long getting back to you. I've attached the iwevent
> output as well as the relevant section of the syslog. 

So this is because ndiswrapper never actually associates to the access
point that NM has told it to associate to.  You'll likely have to enable
ndiswrapper debugging or something to see what's going on there.

Dan

> On 10/12/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 00:07 -0400, Andrew Pegram wrote: 
>         > Hello all
>         >
>         > I don't know if it actually went out the last time I sent
>         this, so I'm
>         > sending it again (sorry for the repeat, if it is one).
>         >
>         > I'm having an issue with connecting to wireless networks
>         through NM. 
>         > It will connect to wired networks just fine, but it refuses
>         to connect
>         > to any type of wireless network (secured WEP/WPA or
>         unsecured). I have
>         > checked the syslog and found the following warning
>         (sensitive 
>         > information removed):
>         >
>         > Oct 6 23:42:06 <Hostname> NetworkManager: <WARN>
>         > nm_device_802_11_wireless_set_essid(): error setting ESSID
>         to '' for
>         > device wlan0: Invalid argument 
>         >
>         > I know that the program can read the ESSID from the network
>         because
>         > earlier in the log, it has:
>         >
>         > Oct 6 23:41:44 <Hostname> NetworkManager: <info> User
>         > Switch: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/wlan0 / VCU 
>         >
>         > ('VCU' is the ESSID)
>         >
>         > I've tried reinstalling everything to do with NetworkManager
>         and
>         > ndiswrapper, and nothing seems to be working. If I haven't
>         posted
>         > enough information, I can post everything in the log from
>         the time I 
>         > select the WLAN in the drop-down menu until it stops trying
>         to
>         > connect.
>         
>         During an association attempt, can you run the program
>         "iwevent" (it
>         might be in /sbin or /usr/sbin) and reply with it's output? 
>         
>         Thanks!
>         Dan
>         
>         > Thank you for your time,
>         > Andrew
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