Had to kill NetworkManager - ...reaon=3

[doktor5000]

Hi,

don't know where to post this elsewhere - just thought I share my issue and solution...

Mageia 3

Machine: Lenovo thinkpad X61

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# lsmod | grep iwl
shows
iwl4965                99617  0
iwlegacy               71996  1 iwl4965
mac80211              516080  2 iwl4965,iwlegacy
cfg80211              500693  3 iwl4965,iwlegacy,mac80211


draknetcenter shows
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron]
:
WPA/WPA2 Pre-shared key
:
[ ] Allow user to manage network connection (translated from German...)
[x] Start connection during boot (translated from German...)
[ ] Activate traffic accounting (translated from German...)
[X] Allow Network Manager to manage connection (translated from German...)
[X] Allow access point roaming (translated from German...)
:


dmesg showed (among other)

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wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2)
wlan0: associated
wlan0: disassociating from 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx by local choice (reason=3)

When I finally - after two hours of fooling around - killed the NetworkManager process in KSysGuard all a sudden the connection could be established.

Maybe
- someone knows why and can make this work automatically somewhere down the line
- someone finds this helpful

Wolf

[doktor5000]

Which media did you use to install Mageia, and which desktop environment are you using? Did you use net_applet or NetworkManager?

Also, why don't you use the german forum, than you don't have to translate stuff to english
https://forums.mageia.org/de

[warpinwolf]

Hm, thought that English has a wider audience

I did install Mageia from DVD x64. I use KDE. Don't know what you mean by "Did you use net_applet or NetworkManager?". I have the little icon on the panel - that apparently goes to drakconnect (at least that's what Help indicates).

BTW - NetworkManager started (for no known reason) again, WLAN got disassociated again, had to kill it again, WLAN works again...

Regards
Wolf

[doktor5000]

The question is, why did you get NM in the first place? NM only comes with a GNOME installation, it shouldn't be there with a default KDE install ...

[warpinwolf]

Hm - it MIGHT be that I did install it "manually" in Mageia Controll Center - I recall that I didn't know Mageia, didn't know how to handle Network Connections, didn't know about this drak... stuff (still don't - I start becoming a DAU) - coming from OpenSuSE this is what I was used to...

So you say that I could safely uninstall
- networkmanager
- networkmanager-openvpn
- knetworkmanager-common
- knetworkmanager-openvpn

? I am using a VPN though....

(Shouldn't NetworkManager be able to coexist anyway - why is there this entry on the drak-screens "allow Network Manager"...)

Thanks for all your help!!!

Wolf

[doktor5000]

Well, you can use either NetworkManager or net_applet (which is the default Mageia tool, similar to nm-applet)
But you should make sure that only one is active at a time. You may want to have a look at viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5782
to get an idea how to switch back-and-forth.

For your VPN connections, you can also establish those with net_applet. There are some forum threads here about that.

For the drakx-tools you may want to read at http://doc.mageia.org/