KNetworkManager won't connect to Wireless Network with WEP ASCII key

[Juan Luis Cano]

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-networkmanagement

I have a fresh Kubuntu Karmic installation (release 9.10) and KNetworkManager (plasma-widget-network-manager 0.9~svn1029786+ag1-0ubuntu1). My wireless network is correctly detected and shown, and I have correctly typed the WEP ASCII key, but when I click it to connect, nothing happens. When I start "knetworkmanager" from Konsole and I do this, I get this message:

Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter

I'm not able to check if I can connect to other networks, but I have realised that, at least, when I click them "it tries" to connect, though in fact it can't because I don't know the password.

What's more, when I just finished the installation I browsed the Internet for a while, but this problem appeared when I restarted the computer.

I had a similar problem in Jaunty and Intrepid before, and I solved it installing network-manager-gnome and using nm-applet, and that is what I've done. However, this is not a clean solution: I had to download all the dependencies from another computer, and someone might not be as lucky as me. KNetworkManager should work at once.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 3 22:36:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: plasma-widget-network-manager 0.9~svn1029786+ag1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=es_ES:es:en_GB:en
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: plasma-widget-networkmanagement
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (nm-connection-editor:2685): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
 (nm-connection-editor:2685): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
 (nm-connection-editor:2685): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
 (nm-connection-editor:2685): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

[Franzmaximilian (davini)]

I have exactly the same problem on a freshly installed kubuntu 9.10 (from CD, on a new computer, clean install).

On a different computer, using the very same cd in live mode and the same usb dongle as now, it worked nicely after entering the wep key. it also worked fine having a KDE Suse 11.1 installed instead of Kubuntu karmic

I am usure it is the same bug as #446303. Iwconfig returns no connection at all with the router, nor the router log shows any attempt to connect. It doesn't look like a password problem in my case, as reported with #446303