NetworkManager, wlan0 doesn't come up by default

[Martin Marques]

Matthew Miller escribió:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:48:49PM -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
>> The problem is that I don't see the posible wireless AP to connect to, 
>> as the wlan0 device is not up.
> 
> The device doesn't have to be up -- there's a difference between "up" and
> "exists", and the network can be scanned for SSIDs without the device being
> actually up. (That's how it usually works, actually.)
> 
> Does the wireless network in question have any non-alphanumeric characters
> in its SSID? That's a known problem in NetworkManager.
> 
  Oh, really?

[root at localhost ~]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:24:44:BC:B5
           inet addr:192.168.0.5  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::21b:24ff:fe44:bcb5/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:67947 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:60695 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:75810166 (72.2 MiB)  TX bytes:5364115 (5.1 MiB)
           Interrupt:20 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:7646 (7.4 KiB)  TX bytes:7646 (7.4 KiB)

[root at localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

[root at localhost ~]# iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.



What's wrong here then?