[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#714951: Bug#714951: Bug#714951: network-manager: NM ceased to handle Aironet wireless card

[Michael Biebl]

Am 04.07.2013 22:57, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Hi Roland,
> 
>> Jul  4 16:02:25 elastomir wpa_supplicant[1700]: nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found
>> Jul  4 16:02:25 elastomir wpa_supplicant[1700]: Failed to initialize driver 'nl80211'
>> Jul  4 16:02:25 elastomir wpa_supplicant[1700]: ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>> Jul  4 16:02:25 elastomir wpa_supplicant[1700]: ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>> Jul  4 16:02:31 elastomir wpa_supplicant[1700]: eth1: Trying to associate with 14:0c:76:f9:23:bd (SSID='FreeWifi' freq=2472 MHz)
>> Jul  4 16:02:31 elastomir wpa_supplicant[1700]: ioctl[SIOCSIWGENIE]: Operation not supported
>> Jul  4 16:02:31 elastomir wpa_supplicant[1700]: eth1: Association request to the driver failed
> 
> 
> That looks suspcious. Do you get a reliable network connection if you
> use ifupdown+wpa_supplicant directly?

It would be useful to test both wext *and* nl80211.

> The difference between squeeze and wheezy might be, that NM now uses
> nl80211 instead of wext and the old card/driver is possibly not
> supporting the new interface properly.
>

The problem is, that if a driver supports both interfaces, nl80211 is
preferred over wext. I'm a bit puzzled about

> Jul  4 16:02:24 elastomir NetworkManager[12446]: <info> (eth1): using WEXT for WiFi device control

So NM says it is using WEXT, but wpasupplicant is complaining about
nl80211 related errors. My guess is, that the problem is buried
somewhere there.

Michael

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