Need help troubleshooting broken network manager wireless

stardotstar · 01-22-2006, 09:10 PM

hi all,

i have a broken network manager setup on my ThinkPad R51.

network manager has stopped reporting (via the notification panel in Gnome) any available connections.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled network manager (complete removal etc) and manually started and restarted nm-applet.

my ethernet network interface is working (how I can post this)

I am at a complete loss as to how network manager is configured - ie its conf files - none I can see in etc:

Code:

wparker@gecko:~ $ cd /etc/NetworkManager/
wparker@gecko:/etc/NetworkManager $ ls
dispatcher.d

It is running and in the notification panel but shows "No Network Conenction"

If I stop it (kill) it respawns.

here are some of the basics - can someone please help me drill down on this - I have been tearing my hair out for a while now:

Code:

lspci
0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

lsmod

ipw2200                92680  0
firmware_class          9472  1 ipw2200
ieee80211              27012  1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt         5636  2 ipw2200,ieee80211

wparker@gecko:/etc/NetworkManager $ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:25:86:38:74
          inet addr:192.168.0.103  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:25ff:fe86:3874/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1812 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2079 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1407859 (1.3 MiB)  TX bytes:379989 (371.0 KiB)
          Base address:0x8000 Memory:c0220000-c0240000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:F0:35:4E:7E
          inet6 addr: fe80::212:f0ff:fe35:4e7e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:3708 (3.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Memory:c0214000-c0214fff

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:17844 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:17844 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5806142 (5.5 MiB)  TX bytes:5806142 (5.5 MiB)


wparker@gecko:/etc/NetworkManager $ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11g  Nickname:"QLDPSG"
iwconfig: symbol lookup error: iwconfig: undefined symbol: iw_sawap_ntop
wparker@gecko:/etc/NetworkManager $


wparker@gecko:/etc/NetworkManager $ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
#auto eth0


iface eth0 inet dhcp



#wireless card
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless_keymode managed

auto eth1
wparker@gecko:/etc/NetworkManager $

Please help if you can.

This is Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy)

2.6.12-10-386 kernel

wireless works at home for some reason

I am trying to connect to any wireless connection but I cannot scan for them with network manager :

wifi radar will see them and yet hangs when trying to get IP... I have uninstalled that.

Will

stardotstar · 01-23-2006, 12:30 AM

I have been reading about ieee80211 drivers and the Intel distro of the ipw2200 from source forge.

There are detailed instructions about removing my old ieee modules and the existing ipw ones and I am lost. Does anyone experienced with this think they can talk me through the steps to work out what is stuffing up my system?

I ran the script that writes a log of iwconfig whenever the system tries to change the configuration, and it seems that by launching wifi radar I could trigger a response:

Code:

Mon Jan 23 16:29:29 EST 2006
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 9117 ?        00:00:05 wifi-radar
11000 ?        00:00:00  \_ sh
11002 ?        00:00:00      \_ ps
    1 ?        00:00:01 init
    2 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 ?        00:00:00 events/0
    4 ?        00:00:00 khelper
    5 ?        00:00:00 kthread
    7 ?        00:00:00  \_ kacpid
  101 ?        00:00:00  \_ kblockd/0
  127 ?        00:00:00  \_ pdflush
  128 ?        00:00:00  \_ pdflush
  130 ?        00:00:00  \_ aio/0
 6005 ?        00:00:00  \_ ipw2200/0
  129 ?        00:00:00 kswapd0
  715 ?        00:00:00 kseriod
 1655 ?        00:00:00 khubd
 2599 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
 2651 ?        00:00:00 udevd
 5263 ?        00:00:00 shpchpd_event
 5855 ?        00:00:00 pccardd
 5905 ?        00:00:00 khpsbpkt
 5913 ?        00:00:00 knodemgrd_0
 6485 ?        00:00:00 kIrDAd
 7354 ?        00:00:00 acpid
 7386 ?        00:00:00 dd
 7418 ?        00:00:00 NetworkManager
 7430 ?        00:00:00 PowerManager
 7443 ?        00:00:00 NetworkManagerD
 7791 ?        00:00:00 gdm
 7795 ?        00:00:00  \_ gdm
 7831 ?        00:00:20      \_ Xorg
 7950 ?        00:00:00 inetd
 8009 ?        00:00:00 mysqld_safe
 8045 ?        00:00:00  \_ mysqld_safe
 8047 ?        00:00:00      \_ logger
 8132 ?        00:00:00 cardmgr
 8308 ?        00:00:00 powernowd
 8338 ?        00:00:00 cron
iwconfig
wparker@gecko:/tmp $

I'm not really sure what this tells me.
But I can see that Network Manager is jumping in there and using it.
WiFi Radar just hangs probably because they are conflicting with eachother.

I would really like to get some help starting from scratch.

stardotstar · 01-23-2006, 02:49 AM

Please help..

I don't know where to start now.

I have tried reworking all my ieee and ipw modules and rebuilding with my good and a newly configured kernel and don't know where to begin to untangle the unknown ??

The command iwconfig yield nothing now and yet I have reinstalled it with package manager.

Pointers to start the process most keenly sought from some benefactor.

Will

mrsoto · 09-16-2006, 09:51 PM

The way I find to solve this problem in the past was removing .gnome* folders. Did you find a better solution. I've the problem again and don't want to remove all my setup.

Later,
Manuel