https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=308895#c8
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--- Comment #8 from John Ellis 2007-10-05 19:45:44 MST ---
Not only the ipw3945 but other Dell wlan cards might be affected. I've seen
several problems with NetworkManager that don't manifest themselves when the
interface is statically defined.
First, libsmbios isn't a dependency that's resolved and installed, despite the
fact that the HAL scripts specifically call it to judge the state of the
killswitch (which causes the above error). Installing libsmbios and thus
/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl fixes the problem of the killswitch not being
supported, but NetworkManager still throws the exception:
NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power arguments:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs - Argument 0 is specified to be of type
"uint32", but is actually of type "int32"
The HAL daemon then goes back into its detection/failure spiral as defined
above.
This was also reported in Ubuntu at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/131835
NetworkManager seems to be borked across the board for several distros.
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