Bug 183653 - bcm43xx works fine with iwconfig but not with NM
Summary: bcm43xx works fine with iwconfig but not with NM
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 180369
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: rawhide
Hardware: powerpc
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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Blocks: FC6Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-02 15:15 UTC by Andrew Overholt
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-03-08 18:37:14 UTC
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/var/log/messages (72.19 KB, text/plain)
2006-03-02 15:15 UTC, Andrew Overholt
no flags Details

Description Andrew Overholt 2006-03-02 15:15:21 UTC
Description of problem:
I can connect to my wireless network (WEP) using the command line tools, but NM
doesn't seem to be able to connect.  Wired networking works just fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.5.1-18.cvs20060301
kernel-2.6.15-1.1996_FC5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn on my iBook
2. Get prompted for WEP key; enter it
3. Watch spinning icon ... it ends with the no connection icon
  
Actual results:
No wireless connection

Expected results:
Connect to wireless network just as I can do with iwconfig

Additional info:
See attached /var/log/messages (stripped of what I think is irrelevant information)

Comment 1 Andrew Overholt 2006-03-02 15:15:22 UTC
Created attachment 125538 [details]
/var/log/messages

Comment 2 Andrew Overholt 2006-03-08 14:21:33 UTC
Adding as blocker for FC5.  Feel free to remove if this isn't important enough
for a blocker.

Comment 3 Christopher Aillon 2006-03-08 18:37:14 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180369 ***

Comment 4 David Woodhouse 2006-03-22 16:00:45 UTC
Please try this again with the 2.6.16-1.2070 or later kernel, which has a bunch
of fixes to make bcm43xx less picky about the order in which various
initialisation functions are performed.

Comment 5 Samuel Audet 2006-07-25 18:47:30 UTC
Are those fixes that were included in verision 2.6.16-1.2070 this still valid
for kernels version 2.6.17? It seems to screw up pretty dramatically with
version 2.6.17-1.2145 and 2157 here ... I'm just wondering if those patches got
removed or otherwise went unchecked ? 

Comment 6 Andrew Overholt 2006-07-25 18:53:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Are those fixes that were included in verision 2.6.16-1.2070 this still valid
> for kernels version 2.6.17? It seems to screw up pretty dramatically with
> version 2.6.17-1.2145 and 2157 here ... I'm just wondering if those patches got
> removed or otherwise went unchecked ? 

I actually have pretty good luck at home and work but had a terrible time at OLS
last week.  I assumed it was very touchy about APs but maybe it's something else.

Comment 7 Samuel Audet 2006-07-25 22:06:31 UTC
Ubuntu seems to have patched wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager to fix this...
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/42504

But I'm not sure what was part of this "update" that fixed their issues...


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