Re: Wireless found as wired !

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

This has come up a few times:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-May/msg00095.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-May/msg00233.html

I think the consensus is that this is a bug in the BCM43xx driver
since it is not properly reporting it's capabilities to NM.

I wish I could point you towards a solid solution but I have not seen
one mentioned yet.  There does seem to be a bug filed on it though...

On 6/9/06, Trochalakis Christos <yatiohi ideopolis gr> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I have the following problem with the nm-applet.
> Some time ago i disabled the option "Enable Wireless", from that
> moment i wasn't able to reenable it and networkmanager started to act
> weird, it recognizes my wifi adapter as a wired adapter:
>
> NetworkManager: <information>   starting...
> NetworkManager: <information>   eth1: Device is fully-supported using
> driver 'bcm43xx'.
> NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): waiting for device's
> worker thread to start
> NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): device's worker
> thread started, continuing.
> NetworkManager: <information>   Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3)
> device 'eth1'.
> NetworkManager: <information>   Deactivating device
>
> is there anything i can do to get it back working?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Chris
>
> ps: I m using fedora core 5 ppc and NetworkManager version 0.6.2
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