Somebody in the thread at some point said:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:41:07 +0100
Andy Green <andy(a)warmcat.com> wrote:
> Not sure one should blame iwl3945 for this. I updated a friend's
> machine to development yesterday, on rt73usb. Development
> wpa_supplicant crapped out during initscripts with a dbus error (dbus
> doesn't seem to get started until ordinal 26 in the initscripts?).
> NetworkManager was completely unable to authenticate to a WPA AP. I
> downgraded NetworkManage and wpa_supplicant to the F7 versions and it
> worked as usual.
I think that uses the same underlying wifi stack as the iwl3945.
Regardless we're fixing this bugs as fast as we can as they come up.
Each new day's NetworkManager should improve upon the last.
Just adding my experience wrt iwl3945 getting the blame. I don't think
mac80211 should get the blame either since I didn't change the kernel
during this.
But don't get me wrong, it's fine if NetworkManager (which has gotten a
LOT better for me in the last months) is broken in Development at any
particular time. The fact the F7 one was "stable" enough to replace it
is fine too.
-Andy