Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg R. wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2009, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
>
> > Yesterday evening I made an update of my system to the latest version of
> > Factory. This update also included the update of wpa_supplicant to
> > version 0.6.9 (previous version was 0.6.4).  After a restart,
> > NetworkManager is indicating that the wireless interface is not
> > available. After some checking it appears that NetworkManager can not
> > communicate somehow with wpa_supplicant.
> >
> > In the NetworkManager logfile I see the following :
> >
> > May 10 17:41:51 hqvm000261 NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire:
> > assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed
> >
> > Switching back to wpa_supplicant version 0.6.4 and everything works
> > smoothly again.
> >
> > Before I file a bug for this, does anybody else also have the same
> > experience ?
>
> This is exactly what happened when I upgraded wpa_supplicant to the
> factory version. As with you, downgrading made it work again. I'm using
> a card that uses the iwl3945 driver.

Why would you use spa_supplicant? There's a native Linux driver for that
chipset.

Fred

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