NetworkManager crashes creating ad-hoc WLAN

[Joshia]

Binary package hint: network-manager

When I am trying to make an ad-hoc wireless connection in Karmic, it crashes the network manager applet (the network icon instantly missing from the system tray). Then, it tries to connect, and disconnected continuously until I delete the Ad-hoc connection in the Preferences > Network Connection app. The Network manager applet in Jaunty was much better.

And, I suggest adding the functionality of creating a GUI internet sharing feature on Network manager for the next release (Lucid Lynx).

For Ubuntu Karmic, please include the repair in Ubuntu Software update.

If you need further information, please ask me.
Thanks

[besworks (scuzzell)]

I can confirm this bug. Most attempts at creating an Ad-Hoc connection result in constant connect/disconnects. A couple times I have managed to get it to stay connected temporarily but at some point everything goes haywire and then I start seeing networks appearing in the list with garbled names that do not exist. Any attempts to modify the network cause the network-manager icon to disappear. Restarting X will get the icon back but does not solve the reconnecting issue or get rid of the strange networks from the list. Restarting the networking service doesn't help either. The only way I have managed to recover from this is to remove the networks from the Network Connections Program in System > Preferences and then reboot.

[Ashley Hooper (ash-hooper)]

Another sufferer of this bug here.

I get these garbled network names and the Ad Hoc networks I create disappear and reappear in the Network Manager user interface (and "iwlist scan"s from other PCs) with no rhyme nor reason.

I have upgraded to the daily trunk builds from the Network Manager PPAs, which fixed other problems I was having (non-assignment of DNS servers to client computers sharing the Internet connection), but this bug is still present and very annoying.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Hi. What's the status of this bug in Ubuntu 12.04?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]