NetworkManager Issues

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 21:46 -0500, Amitabha Roy wrote: 
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:05:11 -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
> <vr at movingparts.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:47 -0500, Amitabha Roy wrote:
> > > Latest rawhide networkmanager is now asking for a password for a
> > > wireless network
> > > which I know is not encrypted!
> > 
> > How can I get NetworkManagerInfo to prompt me for a WEP key??  I can't
> > for the life of me get this to work, and I REALLY want to....
> > 
> > I have started /etc/init.d/NetworkManager, and started
> > NetworkManagerInfo.  My first problem is that I can't get
> > NetworkManagerInfo to deal with a wireless network that has WEP turned
> > on as well as doesn't broadcast its ESSID.  I tried to manually get it
> > to work by putting the ESSID in, but it doesn't ask me for a WEP key, so
> > it's unable to associate and fails.
> > 
> > So I reconfigured my wireless AP to broadcast its ESSID and now
> > NetworkManagerInfo shows that network in its menu, with a lock icon in
> > it, but it still doesn't prompt me for my WEP key!!
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong???


> Hmm... I am in the same situation as you. For a wireless network at home,
> which is WEP encrypted and not broadcasting the ESSID and I could get
> it to work.
> 
> First - have you updated to the latest rawhide networkmanager ? 
> 

yes. NetworkManager-0.3.1-3

> Second - try first setting key using iwconfig. 
> 

didn't make any difference.

> Then run NetworkManager.
> 
> One very irritating thing about NetworkManager is that it keeps asking
> me for a WEP key about 4-5 times before the applet settles down.

Okay, I've wasted the last 3 hours trying to get this to work and am
done with it.  Here's what I've found:

- NetworkManager has to have the mode set to "Managed"
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, from what I saw.  This
conflicts with FC's insistence on making the mode "Auto" so that I can
change the channel to 6 and the rate to Auto
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133500).

- unless I log into gnome as root, NetworkManagerInfo hard-locks-up my
laptop.  No, I cannot give a stack trace or anything useful to debug
this.  Specifically, what happens is I start NetworkManagerInfo, click
on its menu, choose the SID of my network, and then sometimes
immediately and sometimes after the error dialog box comes up to say
"can't connect to this network" (it does NOT ask me for a WEP key if I'm
not root), my laptop freezes hard.  Mouse doesn't respond, kernel
doesn't respond, etc., etc.

- IF I am root, then clicking NetworkManagerInfo's menu and selecting
the SID of my network, I do get the next dialog asking me for my WEP
key.  HOWEVER, it does this EVERY time!!  The WEP key does not get saved
as it is supposed to in gconf.

Argh!!!!  

I REALLY want this to work!!  =:/

I am running the latest kernel from fc3 (kernel-2.6.9-1.649), and have
installed the orinoco-0.15rc2 kernel modules so that iwlist scanning
works.

Help???


-- 

,-----------------------------------------------------------------//
| Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper ::  Numbers 6:22-26 
 `
 | All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much MUCH thicker 
 | in the middle, and then thin again at the far end.  That is 
 | the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too.  
 ,
| bash$ :(){ :|:&};:
`----------------------//