[CHIPSET] cannot connect to (ENCRYPT_METHOD)

[Kasper F. Brandt]

Binary package hint: network-manager-gnome

When i right click on the nm-applet tray icon "Enable Wireless" is grayed out as if there was no wireless interfaces. But NetworkManager tries to configures my wireless interface nevertheless as seen in this snippet of /var/log/daemon.log:
Feb 3 11:58:46 poins NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_acer_wmi_rfkill_acer_wireless_wlan
Feb 3 11:58:46 poins NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver is 'ath5k_pci'.
Feb 3 11:58:46 poins NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
Feb 3 11:58:46 poins NetworkManager: <info> Found new 802.11 WiFi device 'wlan0'.
Feb 3 11:58:46 poins NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_22_69_84_bf_97
Feb 3 11:58:46 poins NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant manager state: down -> idle
Feb 3 11:58:46 poins nm-system-settings: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_22_69_84_bf_97, iface: wlan0)
Feb 3 11:58:50 poins NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2
Feb 3 11:58:50 poins NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
Feb 3 11:58:50 poins NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): preparing device.
Feb 3 11:58:50 poins NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).

$ lspci
...
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

$ apt-cache policy network-manager-gnome
network-manager-gnome:
  Installed: 0.7-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The system ubuntu is running on is an Acer Aspire one

[richard mullens (richard-mullens)]

I have the same issue.
I'm using an Acer Aspire One.
I have Jaunty alpha 4 on a flash disk running in live mode.
The Enable Wireless text and checkbox in the network manager icon are greyed / grayed out.
If I remove my RJ45 ethernet connection I have no connectivity.
If I plug in a Dlink DWL-G122, it is recognised but still the checkbox remains greyed out.

[Eddie Kovsky (edkovsky-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't start working on it yet, because your bug report didn't include enough information.

Please include the information requested at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager. If you have trouble, do not hesitate to ask for more assistance. Thanks in advance.

[Kasper F. Brandt (poizan42)]

According to the DebuggingNetworkManager page:
If a network-manager bug report is about not being able to connect the title or summary should be in the format:

"[CHIPSET] cannot connect to (ENCRYPT_METHOD)"

where the CHIPSET is the wireless driver used and ENCRYPT_METHOD is the encryption method used by your wireless network.

Please read the bug report again. NetworkManager have no problem connecting to a wireless network - the problem lies in that nm-applet doesn't seems to recognize that there is in fact a wireless network interface. Also requesting the encryption method is bogus since the problem doesn't lies in connecting to a specific wireless network (so it's meaningless to talk about the encryption method...).

But since you are requesting that i follow the instructions in DebuggingNetworkManager i will follow what is actually meaningful:

poizan@poins:~$ tail -n0 -f /var/log/syslog > /tmp/syslog &
[1] 4238
poizan@poins:~$ sudo killall NetworkManager
poizan@poins:~$ sudo modprobe -r ath5k
poizan@poins:~$ sudo modprobe ath5k
poizan@poins:~$ sudo NetworkManager
poizan@poins:~$ fg
tail -n0 -f /var/log/syslog > /tmp/syslog
^C

/tmp/syslog is attached

[Eddie Kovsky (edkovsky-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for your response.

The reason I asked is because it wasn't clear from your initial report if you could connect to a wireless network at all. I wanted to be sure the problem was with the network applet and not because Network Manager was providing poor information to the applet.

[JanisA (janis-adati)]

I'm having the same problem on Acer aspire one with ath5k. NetworkManager can't manage wireless networks. If i set up wicd (another wirless manager) its working without any problem.