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timosa

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From: Finland

Registered: 2011-06-26

Posts: 16

ipw2200, wpa_supplicant and networkmanager

Hi, My wireless interface stopped to work recently. The following command

rmmod ipw2200 ; sleep 2s && modprobe ipw2200

results the follwing lines in /var/log/everything.log

Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi kernel: [ 6029.678822] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi kernel: [ 6029.678830] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi kernel: [ 6029.679043] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi kernel: [ 6029.810042] cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi kernel: [ 6029.810876] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZE (13 802.11bg channels, 19 802.11a channels)
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill11 (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:03.0/ieee80211/phy9/rfkill11) (driver (unknown))
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> (eth1): using nl80211 for WiFi device control
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> (eth1): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ipw2200' ifindex: 14)
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> (eth1): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> (eth1): now managed
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> (eth1): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> (eth1): bringing up device.
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> (eth1): preparing device.
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason 'managed') [2]
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <error> [1335285235.567584] [nm-supplicant-interface.c:804] interface_add_cb(): (eth1): error adding interface: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab this interface.
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: dbus_g_proxy_cancel_call: assertion `pending != NULL' failed
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state: starting -> down
Apr 24 19:33:55 leopardi NetworkManager[4593]: <warn> Trying to remove a non-existant call id.
Apr 24 19:33:59 leopardi ntpd[806]: Listen normally on 15 eth1 fe80::212:f0ff:fe5a:9918 UDP 123

Do you have any suggestions, how to fix the problem? Wired network works as expected.

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,360

Re: ipw2200, wpa_supplicant and networkmanager

I have reported at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29597

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Mike C

timosa

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From: Finland

Registered: 2011-06-26

Posts: 16

Re: ipw2200, wpa_supplicant and networkmanager

I have reported at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29597

Thanks, Mike. Voted and watched...

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,360

Re: ipw2200, wpa_supplicant and networkmanager

Networkmanager 0.9.4.0-4 works in getting a wireless connection back but fails to show the signal strength correctly for me with ipw2200
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29632

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Mike C

timosa

Member

From: Finland

Registered: 2011-06-26

Posts: 16

Re: ipw2200, wpa_supplicant and networkmanager

Networkmanager 0.9.4.0-4 works in getting a wireless connection back but fails to show the signal strength correctly for me with ipw2200
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29632

Yeah, the icon seem not to be in sync with the actual status anymore. Still I'm happy, the connection works again.

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,360

Re: ipw2200, wpa_supplicant and networkmanager

I've reported upstream now as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675017

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Mike C