Is NetworkManager really as broken as it seems?

[Fulko Hew]

On 10/17/07, Brian C. Huffman <bhuffman at graze.net> wrote:

> That's a difficult chipset. I haven't moved to F8 or rawhide yet - still
> on F7, but the iwl driver in F7 was not nearly good enough to use for the
> Intel 3945 wireless chipset. I had to go with the ipw3945 package which
> works pretty well with some tweaking.
>
> FYI - if you can't make the Fedora driver work, you might try the ipw one
>
> here:http://atrpms.net/dist/f8/ipw3945/


Apparently, it has a few dependencies, and it wasn't obvious which ones I
needed
to fetch from atrpms.  Perhaps tonight I will just fetch the sources, and
attempt to rebuild
ipw3945 et.al. from my notes for FC6, and see if that makes my life any
better.

I also hope that the iwl driver that's packaged with Fedora 8 is in better
> shape to deal with this chipset.
>

Me too!


On 10/17/07, Ignacio Cárdenas <iakynet at gmail.com> wrote:

> KNetworkManager seems to be broken since the NetworkManager update to
> 0.7 because the API changes, so if you are using KDE (like me) then
> you need to wait until the KNetworkManager package update... or
> install the Gnome NetworkManager frontend... or continue using the
> ifup method :-)
>

The gnome NetworkManager front-end seems to not work (for me) just
like KNetworkManager doesn't work.  (ie. It also shows no wired or
wireless interfaces/networks.

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After todays Rawhide update including new NetworkManager stuff,
when I restart NetworkManager/NetworkManagerDispatcher/KNetworkManager
I get the following messages/errors in /var/log/messages:


Oct 18 09:29:38 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
Oct 18 09:29:38 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Found radio killswitch
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_wlan_switch
Oct 18 09:29:38 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Device is
fully-supported using driver 'b44'.
Oct 18 09:29:38 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired Ethernet (
802.3) device 'eth0'.
Oct 18 09:29:38 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing down device eth0
Oct 18 09:29:38 fulkol avahi-daemon[2471]: Interface eth0.IPv4 no longer
relevant for mDNS.
Oct 18 09:29:38 fulkol avahi-daemon[2471]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on
interface eth0.IPv4 with address 10.23.16.1.
Oct 18 09:29:38 fulkol dhclient: receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is
down
Oct 18 09:29:38 fulkol avahi-daemon[2471]: Withdrawing address record for
10.23.16.1 on eth0.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device eth0
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol avahi-daemon[2471]: Joining mDNS multicast group on
interface eth0.IPv4 with address 10.23.16.1.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol avahi-daemon[2471]: New relevant interface
eth0.IPv4for mDNS.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol avahi-daemon[2471]: Registering new address record
for 10.23.16.1 on eth0.IPv4.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth0.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol avahi-daemon[2471]: Withdrawing address record for
10.23.16.1 on eth0.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol avahi-daemon[2471]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on
interface eth0.IPv4 with address 10.23.16.1.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol avahi-daemon[2471]: Interface eth0.IPv4 no longer
relevant for mDNS.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0_rename: Device is
fully-supported using driver 'iwl3945'.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless (802.11)
device 'wlan0_rename'.
Oct 18 09:29:40 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing down device
wlan0_rename
Oct 18 09:29:42 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device
wlan0_rename
Oct 18 09:29:42 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device
wlan0_rename.
Oct 18 09:29:43 fulkol kernel: b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half
duplex.
Oct 18 09:29:43 fulkol kernel: b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off
for RX.
Oct 18 09:29:44 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the
supplicant...
Oct 18 09:29:44 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0) supplicant interface
is now in state 1 (from 0).
Oct 18 09:29:44 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0_rename) supplicant
manager is now in state 1 (from 0).
Oct 18 09:29:44 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0) supplicant interface
is now in state 2 (from 1).
Oct 18 09:29:44 fulkol NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0_rename) supplicant
interface is now in state 2 (from 1).
Oct 18 09:29:44 fulkol NetworkManager: <WARN>  killswitch_getpower_reply():
Error getting killswitch power: An Error occurred. The Error message is:
#012 Could not open file /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data. Check that
dcdbas driver is properly loaded..
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