Re: Oddities with NM 0.7

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:55 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
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> I've been having trouble with NetworkManager 0.7 on my rawhide laptop (T60 with
> iwl3945 wireless part running latest iwlwifi drivers), ever since it came out. The
> main symptom I'm seeing is the following in syslog:
> 
> Oct 13 02:30:57 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
> Oct 13 02:32:03 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times
> 
> No wireless. If I downgrade to the f7 set of packages (NetworkManager*,
> wireless-tools, dhcdbd, wpa_supplicant, libdhcp4client, and dhclient), NetworkManager
> works fine.
> 
> I've also seen the latest rawhide packages cause problems with wired connections
> (e1000 driver). The wired connection will come up, then NM will take it down and try
> to start a wireless session.
> 
> I've had this laptop on rawhide for quite some time, so it's entirely possible that
> there's some stale config information out there causing one of the components
> problems. Any suggestions on how to track down what's going wrong?

Can you grab /var/log/messages from the machine?  It might be the
autoconnect thing; up to F8T3 NM didn't have the logic to connect to the
last known network, which was added later.  If you used NM before you
won't have 'autoconnect' set up on that connection.  Check GConf
in /system/networking/connections, find your "auto eth0" connection, and
make sure that 'autoconnect' is checked.

Dan

> Thanks,
> Clark
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