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orion

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From: near Hamburg / Germany

Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 19

Knetworkmanager doesn't find devices

Hi,

i initially set up my "old" Acer TravelMate 4020 with arch. All works pretty fine, exccept: Knetworkmanager.

First of all, my wireless card is displayed by ifconfig, same with my conventional card, so i don't think that it's an hardware issue. I use the ipw2200 module.

Cards are:

Intel Wireless 2200 BG
some Broadcom

here some snippets from my rc.conf:

eth0="dhcp" #thats cable
eth1="dhcp" #wireless
INTERFACES=(lo eth0 eth1) #wiki says "disable", but disabled, it's the same result

Here are my daemons:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs crond alsa hal dhcdbd networkmanager fam kdm)

Networkmanager doesn't recognize ANY device. if i use normal network daemon, it works fine, but i "need" networkmanager for roaming

Thanks a lot for helping!

Top_se

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 31

Re: Knetworkmanager doesn't find devices

can you please show the output of
$ iwconfig
to us?

thx

Last edited by Top_se (2008-08-07 19:47:57)

orion

Member

From: near Hamburg / Germany

Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 19

Re: Knetworkmanager doesn't find devices

sure:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      unassociated  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0
          Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Knetworkmanager shows nothing, network works, but networkmanager doesn't.

orion

Member

From: near Hamburg / Germany

Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 19

Re: Knetworkmanager doesn't find devices

no ideas?

i can not imagine that something couldn't run on Arch.

If it helps: nmapplet makes messages at shutdown (i know this from other distributions using nmapplet), which indicate that it finds something. But why nmapplet won't work as knetworkmanager?

EDIT: Works now. Was quite simple, user wasn't in group "network".

Last edited by orion (2008-08-09 12:19:45)