nm 0.6.6-1 (Debian lenny) Frequent dropped connection

[victorh <victor homar uib cat>]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a problem with an uncrypted network (the only one I have
now to test on) at work.
It connects fine and works well until the knetworkmanager applet starts
cycling and ends up loosing connection.

If I manually right-click on the applet and ask to reconnect (ESSID is ANY),
it reconnects fine.

This happens about once every hour although frequency varies. For sure, 5-10
times in ~8 hours. It is very frustrating and disturbing since all opened
remote jobs (ssh mainly) must be reestablished.

When I stop the nm services and start "NetworkManager --no-daemon" from the
console, it shows a message like this right when it drops the connection:

CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:15:c7:81:a5:e0 completed (reauth)
[id=0 id_str=]
NetworkManager: <info>  Supplicant state changed: 1
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Trying to associate with 00:15:c7:81:78:b0 (SSID='ANY' freq=2462 MHz)
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
NetworkManager: <info>  Supplicant state changed: 0
NetworkManager: <debug> [1210963560.475100]
nm_device_802_11_wireless_update_bssid(): Roamed from BSSID
00:15:C7:81:A5:E0 to 00:15:C7:81:78:B0 on wireless network 'ANY'
NetworkManager: <info>  eth2: link timed out.
NetworkManager: <info>  SWITCH: found better connection 'eth2/ANY' than
current connection 'eth2/ANY'.  same_ssid=1, have_link=0
NetworkManager: <info>  Will activate connection 'eth2/ANY'.
NetworkManager: <info>  Device eth2 activation scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth2.
CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 15 received
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) started...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
started...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
complete.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
starting...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2/wireless): access point 'ANY' is
unencrypted, no key needed.
NetworkManager: <info>  DHCP daemon state is now 14 (normal exit) for
interface eth2
NetworkManager: <info>  DHCP daemon state is now 11 (unknown) for interface
eth2
NetworkManager: <info>  DHCP daemon state is now 14 (normal exit) for
interface eth2
NetworkManager: <info>  Error opening supplicant global control interface.
NetworkManager: <WARN>  real_act_stage2_config(): Activation
(eth2/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) failure scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
complete.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) failed for access point (ANY)
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) failed.
NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth2.


Any ideas on what is going on? Is the    "couldn't connect to the
supplicant." WARNING line the problem?
The wireless network (ANY) is unencrypted so no WPA stuff should be in play
here...

Is it a timeout problem?


Thanks for your help in advance,
Victor.
PD: Attached is the full NetworkManager output with a few manual
reconnections and VHS (my) comments.

http://www.nabble.com/file/p17283551/nm.log nm.log 





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