Wireless Card Detected, Network manager Dont Work

[nprosper]

Ok I know I can use other methods of connecting to a wireless connection. I would much rather use the network manager. I am using the latest bt4 release, not the beta.

When i do a iwconfig I get the following:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=27 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

When I start the networkmanager i get the green globe on the system trey.
When I do an airmon-ng i get the following:

Interface       Chipset         Driver

wlan0           Atheros         ath5k - [phy0]

when doing an ifconfig I get the following:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx (i hid these numbers)
          inet addr:192.168.1.128  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5679 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6370987 (6.3 MB)  TX bytes:801693 (801.6 KB)

When I open the networkmanager I dont get any wireless devices detected in the scan

When I run airodump-ng wlan0 i get the following:

CH  9 ][ Elapsed: 44 s ][ 2009-09-09 21:39

 BSSID              PWR  Beacons    #Data, #/s  CH  MB   ENC  CIPHER AUTH ESSID

 xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx  -62       39       10    0  11  54   WPA  TKIP   PSK  Downstairs Wireless
 xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx  -66       60        0    0  11  54e  OPN              XBOX 360 LIVE REPEATER
 xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx  -76       54        0    0   6  54   WPA  TKIP   PSK  SuperNatural
 xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx  -90       10        1    0   1  54 . WPA2 CCMP   PSK  REDCON

I know the card is scanning. I dont want to use this feature for scanning and connecting., I would like to use the features of the network manager because I have a Linksys router setup with DD-WRT to act as a repeater for my xbox live, i know i have it at open encryption but I cant access it or get anything to scan in the network manager.

The network manager shows the wlan0 is NOT disabled.

Can anyone help me get the network manager to start scanning for my networks as a primary so I can easily switch between wireless networks.

Thanks a lot!

[secure_it]

there is nothing call open encryption.its open authentication.encryption falls under stream cipher and block ciphers categories & examples are RC4,AES,TKIP,CCMP.put the AP into Access-Point Mode instead of repeater/bridge mode and to put your card in managed mode instead of GUI,use CLI.e.g.
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid <AP ESSID>
dhclient wlan0
it should work now.

[zWiReDz]

/etc/init.d/wicd start

Then go to menu and go to internet then click on WICD then bam... You got wireless... Not that hard..

[Snayler]

/etc/init.d/wicd start

Then go to menu and go to internet then click on WICD then bam... You got wireless... Not that hard..

If he haven't already uninstalled wicd... I don't understand why people still like networkmanager, since it is buggy and wicd works better... Yes, it's easier to use, and wicd is difficult to get used to, but after a few clicks I learned how to work with it, it's not that hard...

[zWiReDz]

If he haven't already uninstalled wicd... I don't understand why people still like networkmanager, since it is buggy and wicd works better... Yes, it's easier to use, and wicd is difficult to get used to, but after a few clicks I learned how to work with it, it's not that hard...

I learned it in a matter of seconds... And you are the one who introduced me to it.. It's really like the most complete noob friendly wireless app for BT4...

[imported_athacks]

"/etc/init.d/wicd start"< bt4 pre final / bt4 beta > "/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start" (dont forget the capitalized letters)

Works ?