[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#448306: network-manager: Possible fix

[Felipe Massia Pereira]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-3
Followup-For: Bug #448306


I confirm this bug and I was able to fix it. Please refer to
http://madwifi.org/ticket/70

The solution was 2-step:

Create a file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-networking-ath0.fdi with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="net.interface" string="wifi0">
        <merge key="net.interface" type="string">ath0</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>


And create a file in /etc/modprobe.d with 3 lines below: (I wrote them in
/etc/modprobe.d/local)

alias wifi0 ath_pci
install ath0 /sbin/modprobe ath_pci; /usr/local/bin/wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
remove ath0 /usr/local/bin/wlanconfig ath0 destroy; /sbin/modprobe -r ath_pci


Now it works for me. I have not restarted the computer yet. I made
/etc/init.d/hal force-reload and removed all ath_* modules and then called
modprobe ath_pci. But I think it's gonna work when I reboot anyway.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.105        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                      3.0-1        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                         0.5.9.1-6    Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.8        high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                     20070313-1   Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping              3:20070202-2 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.74-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.4-2      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.1-5     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0               1.4-2        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                     0.5.10-2     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                     29-1         Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1-pre6                 1.0~pre6-5   Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                 0.6.5-2      network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-24       Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.0-4      Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-kde           1:0.2-2    KDE systray applet for controlling

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