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

[Arnout Boelens]

On Monday 21 January 2008, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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?

There is already a wpa_supplicant instance running, but when I stop NM,
wpa_supplicant is stopped too. As soon as I start NM, wpa_supplicant shows up
again.

Arnout

> Michael

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