Network-manager problems

[Karl F. Larsen]

Joep L. Blom wrote:
> I'm in a catch-22 situation!
> I have installed -on a laptop - Karmic and it runs OK, except..
> network-manager(as usual??) doesn't like wireless. After installing - 
> from a USB-stick - the Broadcom drivers and some changes in 
> /etc/network/interfaces NM sees my wireless even connects and get an 
> IP-address from the DHCP server. Sο far so good! and when I don't 
> connect or do anything the connection stays on.
> However, when I make a connection and e.g. try to lookup a page, then 
> after <1 minute the connection is broken and NM says I'm off-line.
> Looking in the syslog I see every 2nd minute the following message:
> Oct 30 12:13:35 laptop wpa_supplicant [1100]: CTRL_EVENT_SCAN_RESULTS
> Oct 30 12:15:35 laptop wpa_supplicant [1100]: CTRL_EVENT_SCAN_RESULTS
> and suddenly:
> Oct 30 12:28:43 laptop wpa_supplicant [1100]: CTRL_EVENT_DISCONNECTED - 
> Disconnect event - remove keys
> followed by:
> Oct 30 12:28:43 laptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0) supplicant 
> connection state: completed -> disconnected
> Then a lot of messages as wlan0 is trying to come up again and suddenly 
> kernel messages tell the device is up again but it is apparently looking 
> for IPv6 routers - which of course aren't available - and NM says that 
> wlan0 is disconnected.
> I hope somebody has an explanation and if anybody knows a solution.
> (install wicd is not an option as I cannot connect to the Internet!!)
> Hope somebody can shed some light in this problem.
> Joep
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	No light but I too have huge problems with Network Manager 
when using WiFi. It works fine on wired Internet. So I suggest 
you find a place to hook into wired internet long enough to 
load wicd. Then your laptop will work with WiFi...

Karl





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