NetworkManager-0.7 can't make new wireless connection

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Oct 2 15:00:16 UTC 2007


On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:59:10AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> So I tried this.  It sucks.  The orinoco driver has problems scanning

:) Glad to have confirmation, at least.

> I did a patch for airo a year or two ago that cleaned exactly this sort
> of behavior up.  Not sure that really helps you much.  As a quick test,
> what happens if you do a few back-to-back 'iwlist ethX scan' commands?

Initially, works fine. But if I connect to a network once and then try
again, I get a lot of "Failed to read scan data : resource temporarily
available". Once I see that message, it isn't going to connect until I
reboot.

And not a soft reboot -- has to be powered off. 






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