On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Dan O'Connor <beguiledf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have an rt3070sta based wifi usb adapter. I've actually got it working, > but I have to manually connect it to the correct ap (using ifconfig, > iwconfig, and dhcpcd) and cannot use NetworkManager. When starting > NetworkManager --no-daemon I get the following output: > NetworkManager: <info> starting... > NetworkManager: <info> modem-manager is now available > > (NetworkManager:5268): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_error_free: assertion `error != > NULL' failed > NetworkManager: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To > report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list. > NetworkManager: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state > file > NetworkManager: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state > file > NetworkManager: Ignoring insecure configuration file > '/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/.keep_net-misc_networkmanager-0' > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier is OFF > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169') > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as > /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): now managed > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2) > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): preparing device. > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 2). > NetworkManager: Added default wired connection 'Auto eth0' for > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.6/0000:08:00.0/net/eth0 > NetworkManager: <WARN> device_creator(): /sys/devices/virtual/net/ra0: > couldn't determine device driver; ignoring... > * status: started > NetworkManager: <WARN> default_adapter_cb(): bluez error getting default > adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files > > The only important/unexpected line as far as I can tell is that it couldn't > determine the device driver for ra0, my wifi device. It seems odd to me that > this device is in a "virtual" device folder, is that part of the problem? > I'm at a total loss as to how NetworkManager is expecting to relate the > device to its driver. > > The distro I'm using is Gentoo, and I configured the kernel myself. I also > compiled the wifi driver myself (even had to make some modifications to get > it to compile.. nothing major, just update some function names and add a > license tag). > I'm not sure what other info would be helpful in solving this problem, I > will try to be prompt with any requests for more information. > > Thanks, > Dan O. > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > networkmanager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > >
You need to turn on Network Manager support in the config.mk file. Out of curiosity, is rt2x00 not working for you, or is it just not stable enough? _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list