Re: how do i tell NM to use eth1 instead of wlan0?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 08:37 -0600, Derek wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 22:16 -0600, Derek wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Can you please offer some suggestions on getting my laptop wireless 
> >> working with Network Manager? The problem seems to be that network 
> >> manager is trying to use device wlan0 rather than eth1. A more 
> >> linux-able person than I got the laptop to connect to another network 
> >> using *system-config-network*, so it seems my wireless card is working 
> >> (also see below), and I am now trying to connect using my home wireless 
> >> network using WPA-PSK security, and I gather *system-config-network 
> >> *doesn't work with WPA—hence I am using Network Manager
> >>
> >> I should note that I have two wireless devices in this laptop. There is 
> >> an onboard Ratech RT2500 device, which is configured as wlan0. I haven't 
> >> been able to get the driver to work with Fedora Core 8, so I've 
> >> installed a Lucent Technologies card, and this one seems to be working 
> >> fine. It is configred as eth1, but unfortunately NM seems to want to use 
> >> wlan0.
> >>
> >> Can someone please suggest how I can get NM to use the eth1 device?
> >>     
> >
> > You can lock connections to a particular wireless card's MAC address by
> > using system-config-network (make sure you keep "Controlled by
> > NetworkManager" checked!) or via the connection editor (right-click on
> > the applet's icon, choose "Edit connections...").
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >   
> Hi Dan (and everyone),
> 
> Thanks for the advice. I've added the MAC address of the Lucent device 
> to a connection, using “Edit Connections”, which is now called “Jerry 
> Lucent”. But I seem to be missing something. The “Jerry Lucent” 
> connection isn't offered as an option when I left-click on the NM gnome 
> icon. I see this: ( “[]” indicates colored text)
> 
> [Wired Networks]
> Auto Ethernet
> System eth0
> 
> [Wireless Network (Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE)]
> jerry
> 
> [Wireless Network (RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI)]
> jerry
> 
> 
> If I click on the jerry wireless network that is under the Lucent 
> device, I get a request for “Secrets required by wireless network”, but 
> it doesn't allow for WPA-PSK security, so I cannot log in.  I sure I'm 
> missing something obvious, but I can't seem to get the "Jerry Lucent" 
> connection to be offered as an option to connect to.

Your lucent card doesn't support WPA, actually.  It's driven by the
'orinoco' driver, which doesn't have WPA capability, but furthermore,
the card itself doesn't have WPA capability in hardware.

Dan

> Many thanks,
> 
> Derek
> 
> --------
> 
> Here is some of the output from NM:
> 
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) 
> starting connection 'Auto jerry'
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state 
> change: 3 -> 4
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state 
> change: 4 -> 5
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation 
> (eth1/wireless): access point 'Auto jerry' has security, but secrets are 
> required.
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state 
> change: 5 -> 6
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: Missing or invalid key management
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state 
> change: 6 -> 4
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state 
> change: 4 -> 5
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation 
> (eth1/wireless): connection 'Auto jerry' has security, and secrets 
> exist. No new secrets needed.
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'ssid' 
> value 'jerry'
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 
> 'scan_ssid' value '1'
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 
> 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE'
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'psk' 
> value '<omitted>'
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 
> 'wep_key0' value '<omitted>'
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 
> 'wep_tx_keyidx' value '0'
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 2 -> 0
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: set interface 
> ap_scan to 1
> Jul 19 08:24:52 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 0 -> 2
> Jul 19 08:24:53 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 2 -> 3
> Jul 19 08:24:54 localhost kernel: eth1: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't 
> support manual roaming
> Jul 19 08:25:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> eth1: link timed out.
> Jul 19 08:25:09 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 3 -> 0
> Jul 19 08:25:09 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 0 -> 2
> Jul 19 08:25:10 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 2 -> 3
> Jul 19 08:25:10 localhost kernel: eth1: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't 
> support manual roaming
> Jul 19 08:25:17 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation 
> (eth1/wireless): association took too long.
> Jul 19 08:25:17 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state 
> change: 5 -> 6
> Jul 19 08:25:17 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation 
> (eth1/wireless): asking for new secrets
> Jul 19 08:25:18 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 3 -> 0
> Jul 19 08:25:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 0 -> 2
> Jul 19 08:25:25 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 2 -> 0
> Jul 19 08:25:33 localhost NetworkManager: <info> eth1: link timed out.
> Jul 19 08:27:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state change: 0 -> 2
> 
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