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

[Roland Mas]

Michael Biebl, 2013-07-04 22:57:16 +0200 :

> 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?

  I don't really know.  Since the wireless network I'm trying to attach
to is unencrypted, I do without wpa_supplicant.  But ifupdown+iwconfig
do lead to a reliable connection, yes.

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

Certains disent que les vrais hommes ne font pas de backups.
Mais ils disent aussi que même les vrais hommes pleurent parfois.