Wired networks turns activated when changing the wireless security type

[Saivann Carignan]

This bug has been tested on Linux Ubuntu Gutsy tribe 2 with all updates. The computer is a Dell laptop with 1 wireless network card and 1 normal network card.

This bug happens when managing the network through System / Administration / Network .

When changing the wireless security type of the wireless network, the wired networks that were disabled suddenly turns enabled! Gnome-network-manager won't show it without closing and re-opening the program.

Steps to reproduce this bug is :

1. Have a wireless network card and a normal network card
2. Acces gnome-network-manager through go to System / Administration / Network
3. Check off the wired network and configure your wireless network with Wep with a static IP
4. Close gnome-network-manager and re-open it
5. Change the configuration of the wireless network to Wpa with another password
6. Close and re-open the gnome-network-manager
7. Look, The wired network is now activated. You can see it in /etc/network/interfaces too.

[Alex (alexstrabala-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm having this same issue and can duplicate it.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Set status to confirmed and importance to low

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report Saïvann Carignan , It has been a long time without any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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!