Re: How to Test NetworkManager 0.9



Em Friday 10 June 2011, David Narvaez escreveu:

> 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


What wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager versions do you use? I use wpa_supplicant -0.7.3 and NetworkManager 0.8.9997.


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