iwlwifi, NetworkManager, .... ?

[Tom London]

On 3/22/07, Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I haven't been able to get the 'new and cool' iwlwifi driver included
>
> > in the latest kernels working with my ipw3945 NIC.
>
> > 'iwlist eth0 scan' appears to work properly, but NetworkManager
> > refuses to associate.
>
> Doesn't find the device (modprobe'd it by hand).
>
> > I recall in a previous thread that NM needed some patches to make this
> > work. Has that happened?
> >
> > Fails to associate with open  (thanks Google!), WEP or WPA networks.
> >
> > Get these messages during boot:
> >
> > wmaster0: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) ; SET failed
> > on device wmaster0 : Operation not supported
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: operation not supported
>
> My machine (Toshiba dual-core Satellite) just hangs there, had to disable
> wmaster0 setup on boot.

For me, the timeout on wmaster0 setup on boot is about 2 minutes or
so.  Then it 'unblocks' and proceeds.

tom
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Tom London