[karmic regression] cannot connect to wireless network

[Jithin Emmanuel]

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-network-manager

I updgraded from jaunty to karmic yesterday.
In jaunty I used to connect to 2 kinds of wireless network , one WEP and other WPA-PSK.
Now in karmic I am not able to connect to wireless at all. It keeps asking for passphrase again and again.

I can see these in dmesg

[12744.297617] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:40:40:c1:f6 try 1
[12744.299987] wlan0 direct probe responded
[12744.299991] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1e:40:40:c1:f6
[12744.301950] wlan0: authenticated
[12744.301953] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1e:40:40:c1:f6
[12744.304511] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:1e:40:40:c1:f6 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=3)
[12744.304514] wlan0: associated
[12748.283754] wlan0: deauthenticated (Reason: 15)
[12749.284066] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:40:40:c1:f6 try 1
[12749.286436] wlan0 direct probe responded
[12749.286443] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1e:40:40:c1:f6
[12749.288952] wlan0: authenticated
[12749.288958] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1e:40:40:c1:f6
[12749.291452] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:1e:40:40:c1:f6 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=3)
[12749.291459] wlan0: associated
[12752.423747] wlan0: deauthenticated (Reason: 15)

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Forgot to mention , gnome nm-applet works fine.

[Kenny Duffus (kduffus)]

this only happens for me in karmic, with 4.3 in jaunty pwnm worked fine

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Any solutions to this?

[Eroen (erikdenstore)]

I worked around it by replacing the kde-network-manager with wicd. Aptitude kept tabs of the operation fairly smoothly. It connects beatifully to my WPA/AES encrypted network.

From lspci:
Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The WEP part might be bug 339313, but WPA sounds like a new issue.

[Dale Trombley (buzzmandt)]

happens to me to , no wpa or wep. open connections, click to connect and the name of it dissapears and turns to unknown network but won't connect

nm-applet works fine even while in K.... definitely a plasma network manager issue

[Kenny Duffus (kduffus)]

with yesterdays updates pwnm works again for me, it may possibly have started working a bit earlier as i haven't been testing pwnm every day

successfully connecting to a WEP network in a hotel

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

On Wednesday 15 Jul 2009 3:18:16 pm Kenny Duffus wrote:
> with yesterdays updates pwnm works again for me, it may possibly have
> started working a bit earlier as i haven't been testing pwnm every day
>
> successfully connecting to a WEP network in a hotel
Its working for me also.
--
Thanks
Jithin Emmanuel

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

 In my case it is working for a WEP secured network and not working for a WPA-PSK enabled network.

[Luis Silva (lacsilva)]

I just tested plasma-widget-network-manager with a WPA-PSK network and I can confirm that it is not working. I also noticed that there also is a plasma-widget-networkmanagement. What is the difference between the two? I am currently using wicd as a network manager and it seems to be a wicd solid backend but I don't seem to be able to make it connect to any network. Can someone put forward a few words on this?

[Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman (fenris)]

i also can confirm that happened to me too ... can't connect to WPA-PSK

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

also here....

[Dread Knight (dread.knight)]

@Miguel Tadeu please stop doing the "also here", this bug has been confirmed already and you can use the "this bug affects me too" button. I guess you're not reading the foss planets. Don't get angry with me.

[liamdawe (liamdawe)]

I tried the daily cd from 20th of july and the issue is still there for me. WEP.

Just for comparisons, ubuntu works flawlessly with my wireless always has. I have a netgear pci card.

Kubuntu's plasma in jaunty and so far any of karmic does the repeated asking for passphrase.

[Paulo Bartos (paulo-bartos)]

Just to mention that the same problem ocurrs with me, only WPA-PSK and KUBUNTU.

[Jeremy Wilkins (wjeremy)]

Karmic has this problem too. Latest network management applet. nm-applet works fine. I am using WPA-PSK as well. Is there a difference in the backend? I thought nm-applet uses the same backend as nm-applet?

[Jeremy Wilkins (wjeremy)]

I meant network management plasma-applet should have the same backend as nm-applet.

[Mark (mark-wege)]

Same problem in Jaunty with WPA-PSK. Could someone add this to the above list. Would be great if it was fixed there too.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

In jaunty I had no problems before upgrading to karmic.

[Mark (mark-wege)]

I did not have them until I did a Jaunty fresh install for other reasons.

[Jonathan Aquilina (eagles051387)]

i had no problems until i upgraded to karmic

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Mark <email address hidden> wrote:

> I did not have them until I did a Jaunty fresh install for other
> reasons.
>
> --
> [karmic regression] cannot connect to wireless network
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392593
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> of a duplicate bug.
>

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[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The plasma-widget-network-manager package is being transitioned to the plasma-widget-networkmanagement package.

Speaking of which, Karmic just got a new svn snapshot. The plasmoid portion is currently under renovation, but they wrote a small systray application that uses the same connection backend. (They did this so that plasma wouldn't crash quite so much during development)

Anyway, if those running Karmic could install the update and run "knetworkmanager" and put you test results here and at https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/PlasmaWidgetNetworkManager/0.0+svn1002781-0ubuntu1~ppa1 that would be great.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Wireless WPA2 still not working with knetworkmanager. . The wiki is giving error on loggin in. - UnknownTimeZoneError 'Asia/Kolkata'.

[Wladimir Mutel (mwg)]

Still no luck with KDE updated to 4.3 as of Karmic/today.
The update brought in older-style knetworkmanager (non-plasma, the standard systray one), but this does not work either.

Gnome's nm-applet works fine, still.

[Mark (mark-wege)]

confirmed. The problem still exists with updates with 4.3 / Jaunty.

[Onestone (onestone)]

Upstream has supposedly fixed this in latest SVN. Please package it.

In the meantime, one workaround is to create a system connection (for example using GNOME's nm-applet, which does it correctly). Knetworkmanager will then work fine.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

I've thrown up the latest snapshot up here: https://edge.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/experimental. Testing is appreciated.

[Christian Pelster (pelle-pellepelster)]

my kde is at 4.3 (on karmic) and with the experimental plasma-widget-networkmanagement i can see my configured wirless networks, but no autoconnect occurs and a click to force connection leads to nothing happening at all.

[Onestone (onestone)]

Unfortunately, Jonathan's package doesn't solve the problem for me. It behaves exactly the same as the one in the Karmic repo.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Now the one used to work the WEP one is also not connecting, nothing happens when I click the on the wireless connection. I am using plasma-widget-networkmanagement from karmic repository only.

[Daniel (nowa-grafika)]

Same for me, No Wifi no 3G cant't connect with NM.

[jc1985 (jc1985)]

plasma-widget-network-manager has been replaced by plasma-widget-networkmanagement in karmic,
so the Karmic plasma-widget-network-manager task is invalid

[Stas Verberkt (legolas)]

The KDE SVN version should work, could this be updated?
For more information: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194128

[Jose Bernardo (bernardo-bandos)]

+1 from me - the kde bug report indicates this should be fixed in svn versions after 101* for knetworkmanager and for the plasma-widget-networkmanagement. Can you guys please provide an update?
Thanks

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Fixed in 0.1~svn1011298-0ubuntu2.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Thanks guys. Finally its working. My WPA2 wireless connection is working smoothly.

[Jose Bernardo (bernardo-bandos)]

Thanks, it now works for me too with a unsecured connection.

[djmaze (maze)]

Thanks, works for me with a WPA2 connection.

[luca (l-savio)]

Still not working with hidden networks (but one can make the net visible just once, connect, then re-hide). When using manual Ip settings /etc/resolv.conf gets empty: I had to use dhcp. But now i can connect with a pure kde installation, before I had to use networkmanager with nm-applet: worked perfectly with some dependencies of Gnome.

Thanks.

[liamdawe (liamdawe)]

When will the latest revision be in Karmic? Alpha 4 doesn't connect via wpa2 for me.

[jc1985 (jc1985)]

it's already in. it came just after Alpha 4

[liamdawe (liamdawe)]

Music to my ears, downloading today daily cd :)

[Authority (8-launchpad-weshardin-com)]

Maybe I'm just crazy here, but I just installed Karmic alpha 4 and when I add the Network Management widget to my desktop or panel, I just get a useless box that tells me Network Management is unstable and to use knetworkmanager instead. Did something change in the past day and half?

[Authority (8-launchpad-weshardin-com)]

And just to add, I followed the recommendation to use knetworkmanager, and indeed that is what is automatically started when logging in, but still have no success. knetworkmanager scans and lists all the wireless networks in the area, including mine, but after entering the WEP hex key and telling it to connect automatically, it does nothing. I can click on the systray icon and see my network set apart on the main menu now, but clicking on it does nothing. I get no response. Killing knetworkmanager and starting nm-applet works just fine though.

[fejes (anthony-fejes)]

knetworkmanager is mostly working for me now, with two caveats:

I had to delete all of the networks that were stored and set them up again. Using any of the old profiles did not result in a connection.

I sometimes find knetworkmanager crashing - although I haven't yet found the cause. Periodically, I return to the computer and find the knetworkmanager applet missing, the connection dropped and have to restart by launching knetworkmanager from the command line.

[Michael Marley (mamarley)]

I have had some more luck in this area. Before, knetworkmanager4/plasma-widget-nm would do absolutely nothing in every case. Now, it successfully connects to my home network (WPA2) but will not connect to the networks at college, which are unsecured. Wicd is still working fine for both.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

Precisely. I also had to delete my existing profiles to make it work.

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:49 AM, fejes <email address hidden> wrote:

> knetworkmanager is mostly working for me now, with two caveats:
>
> I had to delete all of the networks that were stored and set them up
> again. Using any of the old profiles did not result in a connection.
>
> I sometimes find knetworkmanager crashing - although I haven't yet found
> the cause. Periodically, I return to the computer and find the
> knetworkmanager applet missing, the connection dropped and have to
> restart by launching knetworkmanager from the command line.
>
> --
> [karmic regression] cannot connect to wireless network
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392593
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Thanks
Jithin Emmanuel

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[fejes (anthony-fejes)]

I'm still having issues with the knetworkmanager, though I don't know if it's related. Periodically, it's just segfaulting and leaving only the following in my /var/log/messages:

knetworkmanager[3819]: segfault at 10 ip 00007facdc288f64 sp 00007fff6f5a8ec0 error 4 in libsolidcontrol.so.4.3.0[7facdc26a000+34000]

Is it likely to be related, or should I start a new ticket?

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

This is the bug report for that.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-widget-networkmanagement/+bug/413643
Its fixed upstream. Someone needs to repackage it.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:32 AM, fejes <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm still having issues with the knetworkmanager, though I don't know if
> it's related. Periodically, it's just segfaulting and leaving only the
> following in my /var/log/messages:
>
> knetworkmanager[3819]: segfault at 10 ip 00007facdc288f64 sp
> 00007fff6f5a8ec0 error 4 in libsolidcontrol.so.4.3.0[7facdc26a000+34000]
>
> Is it likely to be related, or should I start a new ticket?
>
> --
> [karmic regression] cannot connect to wireless network
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392593
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Thanks
Jithin Emmanuel

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[Vesal Vojdani (vesal)]

The network manager widget still seems broken. I recently tried with 0.1~svn1017841-0ubuntu2 and couldn't even add the widget after installation and the applet failed to connect to my wireless. On the other hand, wicd works perfectly.

[Chris (chris-pm)]

Confirm I'm getting the same results.
Still broken here.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

You have to remove your existing wireless configurations and add again. Then it will work.

[luca (l-savio)]

It works, now i can set a manual ip on my home wireless wpa2, but still it can'see hidden networks.

[BryanLawrence (b-n-lawrence)]

Not working for me on karmic alpha 5 ... mind you after reading this thread I'm absolutely confused as to how to invoke the "right" network manager ... (this for a wep asci key, same config works fine on 8.04)

[SamBit (bleumas5)]

I installed karmic alpha 6 and all updates. It works flawlessly with WPA2, but I can't connect to hidden WEP networks :(

[axel668 (axel-bruland)]

Working for me in Karmic Alpha6. If you're looking for an alternative, I can recommend Wicd, it's fast and easy.

[Andy Barilla (andybarilla)]

This is not working for me in karmic beta for WEP or WPA-PSK.

[Peterson Silva (petersonsilva)]

Hmm although it says fix released, 9.10 Beta doesn't work for me either, although I'm confused. "iwlist <device> scan" gives me nothing, so I don't know if this is related to plasma or to another thing, such as this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/395657?comments=all

But then, Ubuntu works perfectly =/