issues with iwl3945 and NetworkManager

[Douglas Kilpatrick]

I've installed f8t2 on a dell 820 latitude with a 3945 chipset.  I can't
seem to get wireless working with WEP protected networks.  I have been able
to get it to connect to a local open network.

0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network
Connection (rev 02)

I use the kde desktop.  knetworkmanager doesn't appear to be working at
all, so I have to use nm-applet.

When I bring it up, it can see my networks.  It just can't join them.
(NetworkManager asks for a password, but doesn't ever connect, or seem to
do anything)

After a while of poking, nm-applet no longer lists any wireless networks.
"iwlist wlan0 scanning" doesn't work ("Failed to read scan data : Resource
temporarily unavailable").


(I also had problems with pam_gnome_keyring not setting up the environment
variables correctly, which caused nm-applet to have issues.  I added to
following to .kde/env/gnome-keyring.sh
----
#!/bin/sh

#this is on one line.  Sorry about the wrapping from the mail client.
pid=$(ps x | sed -n 's/\s*\([1-9][0-9]*\)
.*[g]nome-keyring-daemon/\1/p;/^[1-9][0-9]*$/q')

if test -n "$pid"; then
	GNOME_KEYRING_PID=$pid
	GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=$(lsof -p $pid | sed -n
's|^.*\(/tmp/keyring-.*/socket\)$|\1|p')
fi
if test -z "$GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET"; then
	eval `gnome-keyring-daemon`
fi
export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET
export GNOME_KEYRING_PID
----
and that seemed to fix it)

Help?

Doug
-- 
Doug Kilpatrick
kilpatds at oppositelock.org