[Mageia-dev] problems connecting to new wlan access points

Tue Apr 17 00:01:47 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Hugo Pereira Da Costa at 16/04/12 21:51 did gyre and
+gimble:
+> On 04/16/2012 10:14 PM, Mika Laitio wrote:
+>> I am always having problems for connecting to new access points with
+>> the drakconf. Drakconf is able to show up the list of access points just
+>> fine and also the config screen looks ok.
+>>
+>> Bu when I select the new ap from the list and press connect button, I
+>> usually get error message from the connection failure.
+>> This will happen even if I try to push the connect button again after
+>> the first failure.
+>>
+>> But if I instead reboot the machine after the failed connect, the
+>> network will be up just fine on next boot.
+>> I think the problem is not related to AP encryption mode as this is
+>> happening for me both with the OpenWEP and WPA/WPA2 connections.
+>>
+>> At the moment I am testing with machine having Intel Centrino-Ultimate-N
+>> 6300 wlan, but I have earlier seen similar problems at least with intel
+>> 2200 BG that I had on Dell D610.
+>>
+>> Mika
+> Hello,
+> just in case it helps:
+> 
+> I've been having the same problems on several computers/installations
+> (and actually, also with mga1), and could always fix it by removing
+> (urpme) all networkmanager packages. My personal (naive and non-dev)
+> understanding of the issue being that there are some conflicts between
+> networkmanager and drakconnect.
+
+There are, but provided you disable NM, it should be OK and not run...
+unless it can perhaps be bus activated without going via systemd...
+hmmm, I wonder...
+
+
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