Subject: Re: iwlist and network-manager bug report
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:33:40 -0400
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On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 20:25 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 14:09 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > I've been burning the midnight oil on it for the past few weeks, check
> > NM and applet changelogs.  Still not quite there yet, there's some core
> > work left to do getting NM to talk to the settings daemons (ie,
> > nm-client or knetworkmanager) correctly, getting GUI bits for Connection
> > editing in the applet, and making sure the relevant settings are
> > honored.
> 
> Great, good to know. There are various quirks in 0.6.5, my brother tells
> me for example that it's impossible to log on to an _open_ network at
> the university where he currently is while it works fine with iwconfig.
> Some other things too, my wpa network at home never works with nm and I
> was never able to determine why...

For whatever reason, driving wpa_supplicant with D-Bus is a lot more
reliable than talking to it over the unix domain socket.  I've long
suspected that's part of the issue with random failures of
wpa_supplicant in situations where the results between NM-driven and
plain wpa_supplicant are different.

Would be interesting to see some wpa_supplicant debug output from Ben's
machine though to see where it's failing and what info NM is pushing to
it.

Dan