Ubuntu
network-manager package

[hardy] nm-applet displays wired icon even though wireless is active

Bug #211292 reported by Emil Sit on 2008-04-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #121362: nm-applet thinks it's connected to the wired network, when it's connected to the wireless network. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	network-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

It appears that NetworkManager can get confused when resuming from suspend and re-enabling the network interfaces. It can believe that eth0 (wired) is in use because of an avahi interface, and thus display the wired icon in the panel. However, it has also successfully re-enabled the eth1 (wireless) interface. In the dropdown the wired interface radio button is checked but the menu entry is grayed out; the selected wireless network is correctly displayed as checked.

This may have been caused by a spurious indication of link on eth0 and improper avahi cleanup? See attached ifconfig and two snippets from /var/log/daemon.log...