Re: Oddities with NM 0.7

[Clark Williams <williams redhat com>]

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Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:55 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> 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, I was running into the autoconnect problem. I ran gconf-editor and checked
autoconnect for my eth0 and it now connects just fine. But, I'm still seeing:

Oct 15 22:01:15 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
Oct 15 22:02:21 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times

I am running a current rawhide and made a pass through /etc and fixed some out of
date configs (bitten by .rpmnew), but I'm still not seeing my iwl3945 wlan connection
in the NM applet (and I do on same kernel(s) with f7 NM/wpa_supplicant/et al).

Anything I should turn on wrt NM debugging?

Clark
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