I am unable to connect to unencrypted network with ndiswrapper or acx driver (same card) using NetworkManager, although iwconfig+dhclient manually works just fine.
Today I found out by accident that when I run NetworkManager as root with --no-daemon (in root shell: killall NetworkManager; NetworkManager --no-daemon), everything works; I repeated that many times with/without --no-daemon to make sure that is the cause and it really seems to be the case. The failed case has this in the log: Aug 4 08:50:03 [NetworkManager] <information>_wpa_supplicant(7701): wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0->0 (DORMANT)_ Aug 4 08:51:03 [NetworkManager] <information>_Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long (>60s), failing activation._ Capturing stderr of not-backgrounded NetworkManager gives this: NetworkManager: <information> wpa_supplicant(7592): wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0->0 (DORMANT) NetworkManager: <information> wpa_supplicant(7592): WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=5 NetworkManager: <information> wpa_supplicant(7592): wpa_driver_wext_associate NetworkManager: <information> wpa_supplicant(7592): Setting authentication timeout: 10 sec 0 usec NetworkManager: <information> wpa_supplicant(7592): EAPOL: External notification - portControl=ForceAuthorized [...] I am not expert on this but to me it seems that it is wpa_supplicant bug which, in the codepath of unencrypted association, wants to talk to either stdout, stderr or stdin, which are closed if NetworkManager is backgrounded. I wasn't able to determine the cause of timeout from strace -ff NetworkManager, which is quite cluttered. Can someone else test if this works? In that case this bug will be assigned to wpa_supplicant. -- Unable to connect to unsecured/unencrypted wireless networks (bcm43xx-based chips only?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73759 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
