Re: Problems with network-manager 0.6.6 in Ubuntu(8.04)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 02:14 -0500, Rev. Justin Brown wrote:
> 
>         It's mostly driver related issues that the SCAN_CAP NM patch
>         fix in
>         concert with the kernel patch.  Having only the NM side of
>         that will
>         still make NM use AP_SCAN=2, leading to probably failures in
>         many
>         mac80211 drivers.
>         
>         Dan 
> 
> Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I can't find any info on how to
> fix this. Could you point me in the right direction? Do I need to
> patch my kernel or switch drivers?

Best is to get your distro to include the scan capability patch, which
is already in 2.6.25 and is a quite trivial backport.  You can tell if
your card has the scan capability bits or not because NM will print out
a message to that effect when it starts up.

Dan