NM 0.7.0.100 and Slackware

[Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa gmail com>]

Hi folks,

First let me introduce myself, I'm new in here, my name is Sasa
Ostrouska and I'm a packager of the
project droplinegnome.org . Its a gnome version for Slackware. Said
that, we are trying to release now
the 2.26.x gnome series , but I have some troubles getting NM to work.
I have few questions:

1) Is there some support for Slackware distro in NM ? I saw there is a
rc.networkmanager script but it
seems to be not the most apropriate thingy for now.

2) Where is possible to have some help , maybe an irc channel, or its
better to write here ?

3) Up to now I found a wiki on ubuntu.com saying how to debug NM. So
issueing the command below:

NM_SERIAL_DEBUG=1 NetworkManager --no-daemon 2>&1 | tee /tmp/nm-serial.txt

I got this so far:

NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
-- Error received: File exists
-- Original message: type=0x14 length=56 flags=<REQUEST,ACK,ATOMIC>
sequence-nr=1238949083 pid=4199323
NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_generic_enable_loopback(): error -17
returned from rtnl_addr_add():
Sucess

NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'sky2')
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_13_77_af_1f_59
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath5k_pci')
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_21_63_92_af_f6
NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the system settings daemon...
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): bringing up device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
NetworkManager: <info>  Setting system hostname to
'localhost.localdomain' (no default device)
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): bringing up device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state ==
NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): carrier now ON (device state 2)
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): device state change: 2 -> 3

The NM is built by myself, and I used the following options for configure:

configure --with-distro=slackware \
	          --with-docs \
	          --with-dbus-sys=/etc/dbus-1/system.d \
	          --with-dhcp-client=dhcdbd \
	          --with-pppd-plugin-dir=/etc/ppp/plugins \
	          --with-resolvconf=/etc/resolv.conf \
	          --with-system-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs \
	          --with-crypto=gnutls

Seems that its missing just some configuration files, which probably
are not created in the correct way for Slackware during the install
phase.

Also would be good to know if I need to set up some policys for
PolicyKit to make it work the right way ?

Rgds
Saxa