Re: Need more info re: FC6 NetworkManager woes

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 19:46 -0500, Tony Falcone wrote:
> Hi one again,
> 
> In former postings I have recounted my troubles getting NetworkManager
> to work on my FC6 box.  As I noted previously, according to the logs, I
> never get to stage 3 of 5, IP configuration.
> 
> I started trying to diagnose the problem further, using the
> "nm-supplicant-test" tool.  Accordingly, after stopping NetworkManager
> (and NetworkManagerDispatcher), I ran
> 
> # nm-supplicant-test eth1 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> and received the following output:
> 
>         ap_scan: 0
>         Key: ssid, Value: "ANY"
>         Key: key_mgmt, Value: NONE
>         SUP: sending command 'INTERFACE_ADD eth1                wext    /var/run/wpa_supplicant '
>         ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
>         WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - SUP: response was 'OK'
>         SUP: sending command 'AP_SCAN 0'
>         SUP: response was 'OK'
>         SUP: sending command 'ADD_NETWORK'
>         SUP: response was '0'
>         SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 ssid "ANY"'
>         SUP: response was 'OK'
>         SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 key_mgmt NONE'
>         SUP: response was 'OK'
>         SUP: sending command 'ENABLE_NETWORK 0'
>         SUP: response was 'OK'
>         Activation (eth1/wireless): association took too long (>20s), failing activation.
>         sendmsg(CTRL_IFACE monitor): No such file or directory

Is your wireless network _really_ called "ANY" ?

Dan

> (As an aside, I tried setting "ap_scan=1" in the configuration file, but
> this didn't seem to change anything.)
> 
> If there is anything here that can help someone tell me what is going
> wrong, I would really appreciate it; this is driving me crazy.
> 
> (Again, I am running FC6, kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6, with the hostap /
> hostap_pci driver and a Prism 2.5 card.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
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