Wireless

[Brian Anderson]

Well, I've been doing a bit more investigation of this.  I am using the 
madwifi-ng driver (svn revision 1443) which was working fine with 
NetworkManager-0.5.1-8.cvs20060131, but stops working with 
NetworkManager-0.5.1-10.cvs20060205.  I reverted to the previous version 
and NM connects.

The message handler error I mentioned below appears for both versions, 
so it seems to be harmless.  The messages that appear for the new 
version and not in the old are:

NetworkManager: nm_device_is_802_3_ethernet: assertion 'dev != NULL' failed
NetworkManager: nm_device_is_802_11_wireless: assertion 'dev != NULL' failed

any ideas?

Brian Anderson wrote:

> Before today's rawhide NM was working OK for me, but after today (2/6) 
> I too see behavior where the IP address isn't being picked up.  NM 
> shows all the APs in my area and attempts to connect, but fails.  The 
> notable message I get is:
> dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under 
> /com/redhat/dhcp/ath0 for sub-path ath0.dbus.get.reason
>
> it appears regardless of whether enforcement is on or not (just in 
> case there was a suspicion it was selinux related).
> NM doesn't seem to have a problem with eth0 though.
>
>
>
> Don Springall wrote:
>
>> After today's rawhide update dhclient is started at boot time and 
>> does not pick up an ip address.  So instead of doing an /sbin/ifup 
>> eth1 I have to do a /sbin/ifdown eth1 first before bringing up the 
>> wireless card.
>>
>> I have never been able to get the system to start the interface 
>> correctly I think because it tries to determine an IP address before 
>> network-manager is up and running.
>>
>> Anyone have any insights on what I should change ? My ifcfg-eth1 is 
>> below.
>>
>> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
>> # for the documentation of these parameters.
>> ONBOOT=no
>> USERCTL=yes
>> IPV6INIT=no
>> PEERDNS=yes
>> TYPE=Wireless
>> DEVICE=eth1
>> HWADDR=00:13:10:6a:ea:b7
>> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>> NETMASK=
>> DHCP_HOSTNAME=
>> IPADDR=
>> DOMAIN=
>> ESSID=WirelessCity
>> CHANNEL=1
>> MODE=Managed
>> RATE=Auto
>>
>> [root at localhost network-scripts]# /sbin/ip addr
>> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
>>    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
>>    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
>>       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>> 2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc 
>> pfifo_fast qlen 1000    link/ether 00:02:3f:8a:a5:1f brd 
>> ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>> 3: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop
>>    link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
>> 4: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
>>    link/ether 00:13:10:6a:ea:b7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>>    inet 172.17.186.240/16 brd 172.17.255.255 scope global eth1
>>    inet6 fe80::213:10ff:fe6a:eab7/64 scope link
>>       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>> [root at localhost network-scripts]#
>>
>>
>

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