network-manager + madwifi + wpasupplicant

[André Wendt <andre.wendt@web.de>]

Hi,

I'm trying to use network-manager (0.6.2-3) with madwifi (custom-built
from from madwifi-source 0.svn20060207-6) and wpasupplicant (0.4.9-1) on a
non-encrypted network. I cannot prevent network-manager to start
wpasupplicant when bringing up the wireless interface. /var/log/daemon.log
reports:

Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
<information>^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): IWENCODE
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
<information>^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): Association request to the driver
failed
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
<information>^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): CTRL_IFACE monitor send -
hexdump(len=40): 2f 76 61 72 2f 72 75 6e 2f 4e 65 74 77 6f 72 6b 4dJun 12
16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(5242):
Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
<information>^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): EAPOL: External notification -
portControl=ForceAuthorized
[..]
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
<information>^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): Removed BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 from
blacklist (clear)
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
<information>^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): Cancelling scan request
Jun 12 16:17:38 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^IActivation
(ath0/wireless): association took too long (>120s), failing activation.

How can I tell network-manager to use the madwifi driver instead of wext,
if not in /etc/network/interfaces (which is empty except for IF "lo"
because network-manager should configure all interfaces)?

Has anyone gotten network-manager to work with this particular setup and
WPA-PSK?

Thanks for any hints,
André