NetworkManager: wireless card listed as 'wired... [Solved]

[udiljak]

Hello again.

After the last update (also switching to kernel 3.2 and ndiswrapper 1.57) suddenly my wireless is not working any more.
Instead of showing the list of available networks there are two wired networks in NetworkManager which both are "not connected". One of the wired networks has the name of my wireless card chipset (Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbit/s Wireless). I use ndiswrapper for the wireless card.

'iwlist scan' works perfectly and shows my wireless router, but in NetworkManager there are two WIRED networks shown.

I searched "the whole internet" and found some similar cases. All are ether whithout replies or presume a driver problem.

Thanks for an answer!
Ben

EDIT: New kernel and ndiswrapper are not the problem (tried old kernel / old ndiswrapper). I could activate my network with manual configuration (/etc/conf.d/net) using wpa_supplicant. (Yes, it took me a while...)
NetworkManager is still not working! I removed it from runlevel 'default'.

[udiljak]

Maybe I found something:

In the gentoo packages documentation for the new networkmanager package (0.9.4.0-r2). it says:

... "Do not use obsolete wext API by default" ...

(http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-misc/networkmanager?full_cat)

Maybe this means that the new sabayon networkmanager package does NOT SUPPORT cards which only work with the wext API? But I guess I'm not the only one using such a card. Maybe that's worth a new bug in bugzilla?

Greetings,
Ben

[ratcheer]

No, Ben, you are not the only one. After yesterday's updates, I have the exact same problem My card is a Ralink RT3062. It was working perfectly until I installed yesterday's updates. The correct driver is still loaded, but as far as I can tell, the connection is not even being attempted.

Tim

[udiljak]

I filed a bug: http://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3283

[ratcheer]

I have confirmed your bug report.

Tim

[kwacorn]

After the last weekly update of the 29th April I too have experienced wireless network problems. After the update the wireless in both of my laptop computer systems were deactivated, I cannot power them on. They were working fine prior to the update. The laptops are an HP Compaq nx6325 and a Dell Latitude D505, both with up to date Sabayon Linux of course. I presume this problem has some relationship to the original problem reported here. If you advise me what to do I may be able to provide more information if required.

[udiljak]

Hi kwacorn.

The bug is fixed in the next update. See http://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3283.

Greets,
Ben