iwlwifi, NetworkManager, .... ?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 07:22 -0700, Tom London 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> I've killed NM and tried to associate manually, but haven't been successful.
> 
> Any hints?

I got it to work once when I:

- found an open network (no key)
- set the ap manually
- set the freq manually
- set the essid manually
- ran dhclient

This only worked once. The rest of the times, it didn't work.

~spot