NM 7.0 not starting supplicant

["Cliff McDiarmid" <cliffhanger gardener com>]

Hi

I'm pulling my hair out with this problem

I can get a wireless connection manually, no problem, but I want to use the laptop away from home and want NM to handle the connections

I have the following installed to get wireless:

NM 7.0
Wpa-supplicant-0.6.8
Dbus-1,2,4
Hal-0.5.9.1
DHCP-4.1 client only
Driver iwl3945

The supplicant conf file is in /etc

I'm not running the supplicant daemon at boot up(makes no difference if I do) - letting NM handle it all

I get the following error in /var/log when NM starts:

Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  starting... 
Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_generic_enable_loopback(): error -17 returned from rtnl_addr_add(): Sucess  
Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: driver is 'iwl3945'. 
Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01). 
Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  Found new 802.11 WiFi device 'wlan0'. 
Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_13_02_0d_3f_93 
Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant... 
Feb 20 12:43:17 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the system settings daemon... 
Feb 20 12:43:18 cliffhanger nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.
Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2 
Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): bringing up device. 
Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): preparing device. 
Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2). 
Feb 20 12:43:21 cliffhanger NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed

I've googled this error and have seen everything from missing scripts

/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service - I have this and the one in /etc/dbus-1

to: incorrect flags on compilation

to: incorrect permissions in dbus

I've checked all this and nothing changes - please help

MAC 



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