nm cannot use an Intel WiFi Link 5100 (wicd works)

[Emanuele Gissi]

Binary package hint: network-manager

I am using:
Ubuntu karmic (development branch) 9.10
network-manager 0.8~a~git.20090923t064445.b20cef2-0ubuntu2
on a Dell Vostro 1320.

The wifi card is:
0e:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100

nm applet says that the wifi network is disabled. It's not possible to enable it.
The wifi led is switched off, the wifi hardware switch is on (bluetooth is governed by the same button and works well).
It is not possible to connect to any wifi network.

if I install wicd, instead of nm, the wifi led switches on and I can easily connect to wifi networks (open, WPA, WPA2...)

So I presume it's not an hardware/driver problem but a nm problem.

I am at your disposal for further info.
Emanuele.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please run apport-collect 439900 to attach essential and valuable info to this bug.

[Emanuele Gissi (emanuele-gissi-gmail)]

Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.70 metric 1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.254 dev eth0 proto static
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20090923t064445.b20cef2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Emanuele Gissi (emanuele-gissi-gmail)]

Cool! I did it.
I double checked that the wifi hardware button is on the "on" position.
Thank you for your attention.
I am at your disposal.
Emanuele

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

marking as duplicate of new MASTER bug 441161