[ nm-applet ] Can not select wireless network

Internet Mouse · 2012-06-11 20:02:57

Does anybody know why nm-applet does not allow me to select a wireless network ?
All those networks have been greyed out ( in other words, they are inactive ) and even starting nm-applet as root doesn't cut it this time.

My .xinitrc ( just the lines that matter ):

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session

lshw output:

           *-network:0
                description: Wireless interface
                product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
                vendor: Intel Corporation
                physical id: 5
                bus info: pci@0000:06:05.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 05
                serial: 00:15:00:31:55:bd
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=32 maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
                resources: irq:20 memory:b0106000-b0106ff

Last edited by Internet Mouse (2012-06-11 20:09:31)

chamber · 2012-06-11 20:14:11

Are you using slim? If so change your .xinitrc so that it reads

exec dbus-launch openbox-session

Internet Mouse · 2012-06-11 20:18:11

chamber wrote:

Are you using slim? If so change your .xinitrc so that it reads
exec dbus-launch openbox-session

No, not yet, but that didn't change anything anyway - network list is still grayed out.

Inxsible · 2012-06-11 20:21:59

Have you tried any other network manager -- wicd for example -- to see if that works?

Internet Mouse · 2012-06-11 20:27:04

Inxsible wrote:

Have you tried any other network manager -- wicd for example -- to see if that works?

Tried Wicd - works just fine, so it's not a hardware related problem.

Inxsible · 2012-06-11 20:34:38

Internet Mouse wrote:

Inxsible wrote:
Have you tried any other network manager -- wicd for example -- to see if that works?
Tried Wicd - works just fine, so it's not a hardware related problem.

Ok then. Do you absolutely want to use nm-applet? If so, I couldn't help you more since I haven't used it in a very very long time. Someone else might be able to.

Internet Mouse · 2012-06-11 20:47:23

Inxsible wrote:

Internet Mouse wrote:
Inxsible wrote:
Have you tried any other network manager -- wicd for example -- to see if that works?
Tried Wicd - works just fine, so it's not a hardware related problem.
Ok then. Do you absolutely want to use nm-applet? If so, I couldn't help you more since I haven't used it in a very very long time. Someone else might be able to.

Thank you for having the time to look at this anyway, but yes, I do want it, so .. anyone ?

Inxsible · 2012-06-11 20:48:52

one things I can think of is to try to start nm-applet as root and see if that works. if so, then maybe its a permission problem and Gnome requires root access to networking but I am just speculating here

Internet Mouse · 2012-06-11 21:03:24

Inxsible wrote:

one things I can think of is to try to start nm-applet as root and see if that works. if so, then maybe its a permission problem and Gnome requires root access to networking but I am just speculating here

No changes.

Internet Mouse · 2012-06-12 10:21:20

Anyone ?

chamber · 2012-06-12 10:49:26

Seems to be a bug with that driver

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815331

Edit

Just realised you had said it worked with wicd.

Last edited by chamber (2012-06-12 10:53:52)

Internet Mouse · 2012-06-12 11:03:18

Jun 12 11:54:57 localhost kernel: [48779.637920] ipw2200: Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command.
Jun 12 13:57:31 localhost kernel: [56133.318140] ipw2200: Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command.

Could this mean anything ?

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[ nm-applet ] Can not select wireless network

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