Re: NetworkManager 0.8 and WiFi on slackware: device not ready

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 00:20 +0300, 27/249 wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm trying to adapt NetworkManager for MOPSLinux (russian
> slackware-based distro). Everything works fine, except WiFi -
> nm-applet tells me that "Device not ready". Actually, device works
> perfectly if configured manually thru iwconfig or using other tools,
> so problem is specific to networkmanager.
> Unfortunately, searching over internet doesn't gave me any progress.
> What can be a reason of this problem?

Like Andrey suggested, the full NM log output would be useful here.  But
my first idea is that you have an rfkill switch turned on.  Please also
get:

cat /sys/class/rfkill/*/state
cat /sys/class/rfkill/*/type

for me too.  Thanks!

Dan