NetworkManagerInfo not finding rt2400 Wireless PCMCIA (wh is active)

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Amitabha Roy wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Thanks! Moreover,  I am associating with non-ssid broadcast (but 
> non-encrypted)  wireless networks which NetworkManager
> does not yet support (I hope it will in the near future, cause I might 
> switch to a wireless PC card).   Are there any plans
> to include support  for this ( and  associate with  a non-ssid network 
> based on prior history of user choice) ?

Support for this is already in CVS and will be released with 
NetworkManager 0.3 which should go out tonight and be rawhide by tomorrow.

In this situation, the behavior of NetworkManager will be that you must 
explicitly connect to a non-broadcasting network each time.  Your WEP key 
will be stored so you shouldn't need to enter it, but NM won't connect to 
these networks on-the-fly since, of course, it can't see them.

In the future, if NM finds no suitable networks to connect to (since all 
the networks in the allowed network list are not seen by the scan) but 
there are blank-ESSID networks, it could try looping over the allowed AP 
list and brute-force the network.  With your orinoco card though, even 
though it doesn't scan the pseudo-scan routine will brute-force networks 
you've allowed (by clicking on them in the wireless applet) so you 
shouldn't have a problem ATM.

Dan