Re: Network-manager 0.8.992 and wpasupplicant

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Marco <mpiazza gmail com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I was trying to upgrade to network-manager from git (release 0.8.992).
>
> I installed all the dependency and started network manager to activate
> my wifi connection.
>
> I didn't expect to work out immediately and in fact network manager
> does not connect to my AP.
>
> Then I tried to debug and the first thing I saw is that there is an
> error in connecting to supplicant.
> Before sending all the trace logs I would ask some questions.
>
> What version of wpa_supplicant is compatbile with network-manger 0.8.992?
> I tried 0.7.3 and wpa_supplicant from git but the error is always the
> same: time out in waiting a response from supplicant on the function
> interface_add_cb in src/supplicant-manager/nm-supplicant-interface.c
>
> I saw there are commits in nm for the new supplicant DBUS api,
> referencing supplicant dbus endpoint on fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1,
> but starting wpa_supplicant (cmpiled from git master) it says that the
> registered name is fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.
>
> What am I missing?
> Do I have to configure wpa_supplicant to enable the new dbus api?
>

At least, when using 0.7.3 with new API it definitely works with NM
0.8.4-beta2. So you could try :)