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

Tue Apr 17 00:08:16 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 16/04/12 23:01 did gyre and gimble:
+> '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...
+
+Hmm, no, this shouldn't be the case. If you disable NetworkManager in
+systemd it shouldn't start either directly or via bus activation.
+
+I'll try and do some more testes, but with all the NM compatibility
+stuff that myself and blino did over the last few weeks I hope we've got
+this issue licked.
+
+Col
+
+
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