[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#461932: Bug#461932: network-manager: NetworkManager fails to connect to WPA network

[Michael Biebl]

Arnout Boelens wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.5-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> I am trying to connect to a WPA encrypted network with NetworkManager, but it
> won't work. I found the following lines in /var/log/daemon.log, which might
> contain a hint of what is going on:
> 
> Jan 21 10:02:35 bird NetworkManager: <debug> [1200927755.578822] nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_activation_ap(): Forcing AP 'wireless_network' 
> Jan 21 10:03:03 bird NetworkManager: <info>  Error opening supplicant global control interface. 
> Jan 21 10:03:03 bird NetworkManager: <WARN>  real_act_stage2_config(): Activation (eth2/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant. 
> 

Is there already a wpa_supplicant instance running, which interferes 
with NM? What happens if you stop NM (/etc/init.d/network-manager). Is 
there still a wpa_supplicant process running? Does it help if you kill 
this process and start NM again?

Michael

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