Re: Network Manager doesn't work an b9rks keyboard

[Steev Klimaszewski <steev gentoo org>]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 22:29 +0200, Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I have got a serious problem eith Networkmanager: Whenever I Try to
> connect to my wireless network, it just b0rks the keyboard. That means
> that any attempts to press any key (even ctrl+alt+backspace) are
> ignored. The Mouse still works as expected. If I then try to reboot the
> computer, It hangs on rebooting. In this situation, magic sysreq works,
> but a "ctrl+alt+printscreen+b" doesn't restart the computer, but works
> as expected.
> 
> If I do this manually:
> 
> # ifconfig wlan0 up
> # wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -Dwext -c/etc/.../wpa_supplicant.conf 
> # dhcpc wlan0
> 
> then my wireless comes up, without problems. The network is Wpa
> encrypted. (WPA2-PSK)
> 
> Here is some system information:
> 
> kernel 2.6.23-rc4
> wireless driver: bcm43xx (eth1 changed to wlan0 per udev rule!)
> gnome DE with compiz-fusion 0.5.2 an beryl 0.5.2
> 
> x86_64 architecture
> 
> The distro is Gentoo unstable
> 
> Sincerly,
> 
> Thomas

what does your /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf look like?  Did you check the
output of the networkmanager ebuild? Is it the newly stabled
0.6.5_p200xxxx or 0.6.5 or something from an overlay?