iwlwifi, NetworkManager, .... ?

[Horst H. von Brand]

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.
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