FW: Re: wpa_supplicant cli works, but NM insists "wireless is disabled"

[Andrew <andrew2006 flight us>]

>>On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:21 -0400, Andrew wrote:
>>> Hello, 
>>> 
>>> I have appealed to the Fedora Forum, but no one seems to have a clue 
>there.
>>> 
>>> Here is the thread:
>>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=199562
>>> 
>>> (A quick synopsis of the thread:
>>> 
>>> I've activated/deactivated everything i could think of, related to 
>>NetworkManager; yet, everything wireless is grayed out in the applet.
>>> 
>>> But wpa_supplicant (cli) works! 
>>> 
>>> Additional info (beyond above thread):
>>> 
>>> I compiled the latest NetworkManager svn; still same grayed out behavior.
>>> 
>>> )
>>> 
>>> I tried looking in the source and tracing the calls to and from  
>>nm_client_wireless_get_enabled (if that's even a function) but, ignorant of 
>C, 
>>didn't get far.
>>> 
>>> Please help!
>>
>>Does NM think wireless is disabled because a HAL killswitch is reporting
>
>Don't know enough about HAL to answer the above.  (Where would i look?)
>
>>that it's off?  Could you post some logs from /var/log/messages from
>>when NM starts up?  
>
>please see attachment.  (i've X'ed out some addresses (xxxx:xxxx:....)


ooops.  The list strips attachment.  Here is a web link to the same /var/log/messages chunk:

     http://www.flight.us/bugs/var_messages_nm_chunk.txt



>NM keeps saying "wlan1: link is not ready"
>
>Yet, I can do "iwconfig" and "iwlist" with NO problem whatsoever, with good 
>results.  Plus, as i said earlier (this seems VERY significant), i can connect 
>with wpa_supplicant no prob (all the while NM is saying "wireless is 
>disabled"!)
>
>>It could also be that you've disabled the device in
>>system-config-network, in which case the menu will say the device is
>>"unmanaged".
>
>I have played with system-config-network every which way, before. "wlan1" (and 
>"wlan0") are both assigned to NM, ("Controlled by NM" is checked). (wlan0 
>versus wlan1 is created depending on which atheros card i insert -- i have two 
>at my disposal)
>
>
>>
>>dan
>>