Bugzilla – Bug 129660
NetworkManager cannot Create New Wireless Network
Last modified: 2006-02-06 16:16:35 UTC
I tried to 'Create New Wireless Network' with NM. Entered an essid and passphrase. Immediately I checked with iwconfig and it appeared OK, in Ad-Hoc mode. Then the applet said "Requesting a new address from the wireless network '(null)'..." and after a while reverted to my previous network, 'frogs'. I do not understand where is NM trying to get the address from, when I have just created a new network. Is it trying DHCP? I would expect a zeroconf link local address. I will recheck whether my driver (rt2500) supports Ad-Hoc, but if not, NM should give an error message to that sense. BTW, can NM write a log of its actions for debugging? Or perhaps can dbus-daemon do that?
It is indeed obtaining a link-local Zeroconf address. Please check if your driver supports AdHoc and let me know. You can see information from the daemon by running it on the console with "--no-daemon"
Ping? Is this fixed? If not -- can you retry with the latest version (20051201 or later) and confirm if your driver supports AdHoc? Thanks.
One way to confirm is % /usr/sbin/iwconfig <interface> mode Ah-Hoc Let me know. Danke.
It does support Ad-Hoc. I tried with 20051212.
And still does not work? Can I get the output of the NetworkManager log during the problem? It should be in your syslog (/var/log/messages). Otherwise, you can grab the log directly: % /etc/init.d/networkmanager stop % NetworkManager --no-daemon >cheese.log and attach the log. Thank you!
Created attachment 60460 [details] /var/log/messages while attempting to create an ad-hoc network 'kaname' It did not work. The applet was showing (null) as the network name before it reverted to frogs.
Thank you! Just to be clear: You tried to create "kaname" and "frogs" was an existing network? It looks as if NM successfully creates "kaname" but for some reason decides to fall back to "frogs" ... Hmm.
Right.
With luck, this is fixed in 0.5.1cvs20060112. Can you reproduce and check?
Closing. Ought to be fixed.