network manager unreliable with broadcom 4315 wireless

[cindy]

Binary package hint: network-manager

tittle@anathema:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04
tittle@anathema:~$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
tittle@anathema:~$ lspci | grep Broadcom
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
tittle@anathema:~$ lspci -n | grep '14e4:43'
04:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)

Here is what happened:

1) I installed 9.04 rc1 and the wireless worked out of the box, until it dropped connection and reconnected. At that point, it continually asked for a WEP key and after that no matter how many times I verified it, it came back and asked for WEP until eventually gave up. After that, no matter how i rebooted, etc, it would not recognize any available wireless.

2) So I installed 8.10. This never was able to use the wireless at all. NM acted like there were never any wireless to detect, even tho the various listings lspci, dmesg, etc all looked normal (and the proprietary broadcom driver was available & activated). In short, same as above after a reboot. So.

3) In desperation, I reinstalled 9.04...Same deal. It worked for a couple of hours, but then dropped & reconnected and went into WEP PLZKTHX mode. So I uninstalled NM and put in wicd. Played with that, but wasn't perfectly happy with it, and so reinstalled Network manager, but this time went straight into NM and TURNED OFF THE AUTOCONNECT. Since then, for several days, it has worked perfectly. I just need to take the additional step of telling it to, yes, connect to this wireless router instead of letting the puppy think on its own.

WILD SPECULATION ON MY PART: NM is fucking up one or more of its configuration files, that are correct at the time of installing the operating system, in some fashion when it is in autoconnect mode. I have tarballed my current configuration files in case it goes belly up again and will compare, if this happens.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
Package: network-manager 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 359827 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

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