Re: ath5k?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 01:13 +0100, list phuk ath cx wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have an AR5212 WLAN adapter that runs with the ath5k driver from linux 
> 2.6.31. I've tried NM 0.7.1 and 0.7.1_p20090824, and both fail to 
> operate that card correctly. It works flawlessly with wicd or 
> wpa_supplicant, but in nm-applet it says "device not ready".
> In syslog I see:

Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed

which means that the supplicant hasn't been correctly initialized; what
is the contents of your:

/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service

file, and what do you get when you run this command (as root)?

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant /fi/epitest/hostap/WPASupplicant fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.getInterface string:wlan0

you should get something like this:

method return sender=:1.58 -> dest=:1.78 reply_serial=2
   object path "/fi/epitest/hostap/WPASupplicant/Interfaces/0"

Dan

> Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
> Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  Found radio killswitch 
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_1014_rfkill_phy0_wlan
> Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): driver supports 
> SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
> Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi 
> device (driver: 'ath5k')
> Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exported as 
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_05_4e_47_24_10
> Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the 
> supplicant...
> Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the system 
> settings daemon...
> Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese [25148.952901] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is 
> not ready
> Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese [25148.953399] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 
> Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
> Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
> change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
> Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): bringing up device.
> Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese [25148.986093] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is 
> not ready
> Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): preparing device.
> Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): deactivating 
> device (reason: 2).
> Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: 
> assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed
> 
> BTW, this happens now after I changed the system from Ubuntu 9.04 to 
> Gentoo for performance reasons. In Ubuntu it used to work (also with 
> ath5k). I have no idea if they patched nm or ath5k what else they might 
> do differently.
> 
> thanks for any hints...
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