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

[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?

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.

Michael

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