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I finally got my Wireless Network running without using
NetworkManager as files: First I shutdown the NetworkManager Service Then I updated the ifcfg-wlan0 as listed below: I then started the network service. So what we seem to have is NetworkManager not initializing ifcfg-wlan0 correctly, at least it seems to me. The only real change I made was to add the IWCONFIG="key 7DBC63BBEEFCD68B872F051CC2" parameter. So for the time being it seems that I cannot use the NetworkManager Service. SECURITYMODE=open DEFAULTKEY=1 TYPE=Wireless BOOTPROTO=dhcp DEFROUTE=yes PEERDNS=yes PEERROUTES=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes IPV6INIT=no NAME="Auto Holstein" UUID=25177009-04fb-422d-9d70-4d825c396723 > LAST_CONNECT=1275833258 DEVICE=wlan0 NM_CONTROLLED=no USERCTL=yes MODE=Auto RATE=auto ESSID=Holstein HWADDR=00:13:02:08:e6:8a IWCONFIG="key 7DBC63BBEEFCD68B872F051CC2" CHANNEL= On 12/27/2010 07:00 AM, networkmanager-list-request gnome org wrote: Send networkmanager-list mailing list submissions to networkmanager-list gnome org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to networkmanager-list-request gnome org You can reach the person managing the list at networkmanager-list-owner gnome org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of networkmanager-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize (James J Catchpole) 2. Re: Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize (Timothy Murphy) 3. network manager again fails to notice hardware (Alan White) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:58:51 -0800 (PST) From: James J Catchpole <james_j_catchpole yahoo com> To: "networkmanager-list gnome org" <networkmanager-list gnome org> Subject: Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize Message-ID: <548418 37900 qm web110713 mail gq1 yahoo com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I joined the List forum but am unsure if this is the correct way to send in a problem. Anyway here it is. Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize; adapter is accessible (Green Light is On) but NetworkManager is unable to access; see information below. Of course the problem may be in the Kernel but its difficult to know. Fedora 14 kernel-PAE-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686 wlan0 (Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Conection) Bind to MAC address 00:13:02:08:e6:8a ********************* Ifconfig Status for wlan0 ******* wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:02:08:E6:8A UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) ********* Network Error Messages when trying to activate wlan0 ***** SIOCADDRT: File exists SIOCADDRT: File exists SIOCADDRT: File exists SIOCADDRT: File exists Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Determining IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present. Check cable? ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:58:38 +0000 From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard eircom net> To: networkmanager-list gnome org Subject: Re: Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize Message-ID: <if8rsf$371$1 dough gmane org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" James J Catchpole wrote:Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize; adapter is accessible (Green Light is On) but NetworkManager is unable to access; see information below. Of course the problem may be in the Kernel but its difficult to know.I'm no expert, but the 3 things I try when NM doesn't work (not an infrequent occurrence): 1. Run "sudo iwlist scan". If that sees something then the problem is certainly with the NM setup. 2. Try the network service instead of NM; sudo service NetworkManager stop sudo service network restart 3. Check that the entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 is reasonably accurate. 4. Check /var/log/messages . Unfortunately NM produces so much verbiage in that file it is quite difficult to pick out the relevant lines. --
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit and if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else, but I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me. Richard P Feynman |