[hardy] Network Manager can't deal with ndiswrapper's wifi interface

please attach the _complete_ /var/log/syslog taken _after_ a failed connect attempt.

Thank you for replying.
Here's the syslog extract as the complete syslog would also include the manual connection attempt:

Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/wlan0 for sub-path wlan0.dbus.get.reason
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <debug> [1206735130.883083] nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_activation_ap(): Forcing AP 'dragas_wl'
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> User Switch: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/wlan0 / dragas_wl
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Deactivating device wlan0.
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_set_essid(): error setting ESSID to '' for device wlan0: Invalid argument
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Device wlan0 activation scheduled...
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) started...
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'dragas_wl' is encrypted, but NO valid key exists. New key needed.
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) New wireless user key requested for network 'dragas_wl'.
Mar 28 21:12:10 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Mar 28 21:12:25 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) New wireless user key for network 'dragas_wl' received.
Mar 28 21:12:25 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Mar 28 21:12:25 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Mar 28 21:12:25 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Mar 28 21:12:25 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Mar 28 21:12:25 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Mar 28 21:12:25 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'dragas_wl' is encrypted, and a key exists. No new key needed.
Mar 28 21:12:26 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> retry to connect to global supplicant socket (try=1)
Mar 28 21:12:27 dragasacer NetworkManager: <info> SUP: sending command 'INTERFACE_ADD wlan0^I^Iwext^I/var/run/wpa_supplicant0^I'
Mar 28 21:12:27 dragasacer kernel: [ 97.625862] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Mar 28 21:12:27 dragasacer kernel: [ 97.676506] NET: Registered protocol family 17
Mar 28 21:12:27 dragasacer NetworkManager: <...

network manager has a high bar for drivers. ndiswrapper needs to be fixed.

Since it's been a very long time since any additional info was added to this bug, I'm just checking to see if this is still an issue, and find out what additional work should be done on this bug.

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!