Re: wlan0: device not ready

[Julien Danjou <julien danjou info>]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:29:40 +0000, Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>
wrote:
> Le 04/02/2011 17:18, Julien Danjou a écrit :
>> I've already spent some hours trying to found what's the problem, but
>> now I really need some hints.
>> 
>> I've a WLAN on this laptop (iwlagn) which used to work fine with a
>> 2.6.32 Linux kernel (Debian). I've now upgraded to a 2.6.37 kernel, and
>> NM does not want to let me connect my wlan0 device.
>> 
>> The device works fine with wireless-tools (iwlist/iwconfig/ifconfig)
and
>> I do see networks with these. However, nmcli says:
> 
> Have you looked at the wpa_supplicant logs? (sorry: never can remember
> where NM puts them)

Did not find any. I just looked at /var/log/syslog to get everything I
could.

> Have you tried wpa_supplicant alone? Configuration examples look scary
> but just a few lines are actually needed in most cases.

No I did not, but I installed wicd, and it works perfectly.