Re: Association timeout with madwifi

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Simon Geard wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 23:03 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > I also added the following to /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant:
> > INTERFACES="-iath0"
> > DRIVERS="-Dmadwifi"
> >
> > I do not recall if that was really necessary but I looked in my working
> > config and it is in there.
>
> Does that work if you use -Dwext instead? I was unable to use NM for
> ages due to madwifi's lack of support for the latest extensions, and had
> to use wpa_supplicant manually with -Dmadwifi.
>
> As of a couple of months ago though, they fixed the drivers enough that
> -Dwext worked with them, and thus NM started working.

No.

I even upgraded to madwifi-0.1659.20060629-6.

I see the following in the logs:

Jun 29 11:33:42 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: No interface name
Jun 29 11:33:42 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: Callback failed
Jun 29 11:33:44 bullwinkle dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Jun 29 11:33:44 bullwinkle dhclient: Trying recorded lease 192.168.0.62
Jun 29 11:33:44 bullwinkle avahi-daemon[2203]: New relevant interface ath0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Jun 29 11:33:44 bullwinkle avahi-daemon[2203]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface ath0.IPv4 with address 192.168.0.62.
Jun 29 11:33:44 bullwinkle avahi-daemon[2203]: Registering new address record for 192.168.0.62 on ath0.
Jun 29 11:33:44 bullwinkle ntpd[5210]: synchronized to 192.168.0.2, stratum 2
Jun 29 11:33:45 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: No interface name
Jun 29 11:33:45 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: Callback failed
Jun 29 11:33:47 bullwinkle avahi-daemon[2203]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.0.62 on ath0.
Jun 29 11:33:47 bullwinkle avahi-daemon[2203]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface ath0.IPv4 with address 192.168.0.62.
Jun 29 11:33:47 bullwinkle avahi-daemon[2203]: iface.c: interface_mdns_mcast_join() called but no local address available.
Jun 29 11:33:47 bullwinkle avahi-daemon[2203]: Interface ath0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Jun 29 11:33:47 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: wifi0: ignoring event
Jun 29 11:33:47 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: ath0: ignoring event
Jun 29 11:33:47 bullwinkle netplugd[1701]: ath0: ignoring event
Jun 29 11:34:50 bullwinkle ntpd[5210]: kernel time sync enabled 0001

This is the same behavior I saw before.

One more question, is it possible I am missing some other package to make
this work? I cannot find any documentation that talks about any of the
config files. Does that mean it is supposed to "just work" or am I missing
something?

Is wpa_supplicant suposed to start boot or is nm supposed to handle it?
I seem to remember seeing something go by that said not to start it at boot
because nm was supposed to take care of it.

If nm is supposed to take care of it does it parse
/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant?

If nm does not parse /etc/sysconfig/wpa_suplicant, where am I supposed to
put the -Dwext?

Is there a place where all of this is documented?

Regards,

Tom