Network connection says wrong thing.

[Hiramiya]

Binary package hint: nautilus

The network icon in the top corner of the screen says 'Wired Connection' but my computer does not have a wired connection active.
When i click the Icon it shows both 'Wired Connection' and my Wireless Network as active.

Its not a major problem as i can still access the internet, but i cannot see the 'Wireless Strength Meter'.

[Dan Munckton (munckfish)]

Hi

Could you tell me

 - What version of network-manager you have installed
 - Which version of Ubuntu you are running (Feisty? Edgy? Dapper?)
 - Could you also say which wireless and wired network cards you have.

If could you attach the output of the lspci command:

  lspci -v > lspci.txt

Then attach lspci.txt here.

Cheers

[Hiramiya (hiramiya)]

Hi, The network manager should be the latest, no updates in update manager.
Running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Here are my Network Devices (from lspci).

06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g]
802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

06:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
06:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

If its of any help, i havent seen the bug since i reported it. When it did
appear i had hibernated the computer the night before, so that might be
somehow related? Ill look into that for you.

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On 7:47:25 am 06/04/07 Dan Munckton <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Could you tell me
>
> - What version of network-manager you have installed
> - Which version of Ubuntu you are running (Feisty? Edgy? Dapper?)
> - Could you also say which wireless and wired network cards you have.
>
> If could you attach the output of the lspci command:
>
> lspci -v > lspci.txt
>
> Then attach lspci.txt here.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Network connection says wrong thing.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118600
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Dan Munckton (munckfish)]

I've been hunting around for similar issues so far I found a couple, and some comments that seem to describe exactly your situ.

1. [feisty] nm-applet claims wired connection when its wireless #83178 -- similar symptom but they don't mention suspend/hibernate affecting it.
2. Then there's this comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/40125/comments/49 by IDon'tWantNoStupidHomepage in #40125 which seems to match your description, later he is advised to open a separate issue by Constantine Evans who said he was affected too, but I don't think one was opened. We should try to contact them both and refer them here.

Adam could you please confirm if hibernate is the cause? If so I will update the title and try to contact those guys.

[Hiramiya (hiramiya)]

I can confirm that. I had hibernated the computer last night and it
appeared this morning.

However, i have found a solution for it on my computer.
When it comes up, all i have to do is goto terminal and type 'sudo modprobe
ndiswrapper' and the error disappears.

Hope the info can help those other two people.

On 7:27:16 am 06/07/07 Dan Munckton <email address hidden> wrote:
> I've been hunting around for similar issues so far I found a couple,
> and some comments that seem to describe exactly your situ.
>
> 1. [feisty] nm-applet claims wired connection when its wireless
> #83178 -- similar symptom but they don't mention suspend/hibernate
> affecting it. 2. Then there's this comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/40125/comments/49 by IDon'tWantNoStu
> pidHomepage in #40125 which seems to match your description, later he is
> advised to open a separate issue by Constantine Evans who said he was a
> ffected too, but I don't think one was opened. We should try to contact
> them both and refer them here.
>
> Adam could you please confirm if hibernate is the cause? If so I will
> update the title and try to contact those guys.
>
> --
> Network connection says wrong thing.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118600
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Dan Munckton (munckfish)]

So can you confirm: when this happens and before you run modprobe type lsmod in the terminal - is the ndiswrapper module showing as loaded or not?

[Hiramiya (hiramiya)]

Unfortuantely i cant fully confirm that for you yet.
I 'resumed' the computer, and opened firefox. As soon as i opened firefox
the connection said 'Wired connection Disconnected' then Asked my for
keyring password and connected to my wireless network.

I had not typed 'sudo modprobe ndiswrapper' so i think the module must of
already been loaded.

On 8:52:12 pm 08/06/07 Dan Munckton <email address hidden> wrote:
> So can you confirm: when this happens and before you run modprobe type
> lsmod in the terminal - is the ndiswrapper module showing as loaded or
> not?
>
> --
> Network connection says wrong thing.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118600
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Hiramiya (hiramiya)]

Ok,next confirmation.
lsmod does show that ndiswrapper is loaded.
Noticed, when i click the network connection icon, it shows the wired
connection as selected but it is grey.

On 5:39:04 am 10/06/07 adam93250 <email address hidden> wrote:
> Unfortuantely i cant fully confirm that for you yet.
> I 'resumed' the computer, and opened firefox. As soon as i opened
> firefox the connection said 'Wired connection Disconnected' then
> Asked my for keyring password and connected to my wireless network.
>
> I had not typed 'sudo modprobe ndiswrapper' so i think the module
> must of already been loaded.
>
>
> On 8:52:12 pm 08/06/07 Dan Munckton <email address hidden> wrote:
> > So can you confirm: when this happens and before you run modprobe
> > type lsmod in the terminal - is the ndiswrapper module showing as
> > loaded or not?
> >
> > --
> > Network connection says wrong thing.
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118600
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct
> > subscriber of the bug.
> >
>
> --
> Network connection says wrong thing.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118600
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Dan Munckton (munckfish)]

Hi

I am fairly certain now that this is the same problem as reported in #83178. An upstream fix is already available. I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of that bug.

Thanks.