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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 05.07.2013 09:19, schrieb 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.

That is hitting completely different code paths, so that the result
differs is not too unexpected.

Is it possible you can try to setup wpa_supplicant to use both wext and
nl80211 and report back with the results. This should help to narrow
down where the problem is.

Michael


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