Re: How to Test NetworkManager 0.9

[David Narvaez <david narvaez computer org>]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 15:12 +0200, Jirka Klimes wrote:
>> On Thursday 09 of June 2011 14:00:29 David Narvaez wrote:
>> First, basically you don't need any client (KDE plasma or nm-applet or gnome-
>> shell applet or whatever) to run NetworkManager. You can edit connection files
>> and everything will work.
>>
>> To list available APs use:
>> nm-tool
>> or
>> nmcli dev wifi
>>
>> > nmcli nm shows Wifi and Wifi-Hardware are both enabled but I can't see
>> > a list of the networks. Any ideas from this point?
>> >
>>
>> There could be a problem with WiFi driver or wireless could be disabled by
>> rfkill switch (either hardware or software). Can you show the output of 'nm-
>> tool' and 'rfkill list' commands? Also attach /var/log/messages or
>> /var/log/daemon.log, or whatever file contains NetworkManager logs in your
>> distro.
>
> After that, try a manual wifi scan:
>
> iw dev wlan0 scan trigger
>
> or if your card is really old:
>
> iwlist wlan0 scan
>
> and see what happens.  If that's working, the next thing we need to do
> is enable wpa_supplicant debugging to see why the scan requests are
> getting rejected by the driver.

Thanks for the replies,

I had an awfully busy night and didn't have much time to hack NM but
just wanted to give quick updates on the commands above:

* nm-tool shows no wireless networks
* rfkill shows everything is unblocked
* I can scan wireless networks with iwlist
* This is something relevant I found on messages:

> (wlan0): device state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'supplicant-available')

I am not able to copy the exact outputs right now (they are in the
laptop, without wireless), but that should give us a bit of an idea of
what the situation looks like. I searched around and found some
strikingly similar bugs in Fedora 15[0][1], which uses NM 0.9 so my
issue could be along those lines. I didn't have time to read through
all of them, but I'll try that tomorrow. If needed, I could still post
the output of the commands tomorrow to help debugging

Thanks againf or the help.

David E. Narváez

[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695959
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697946