Network Manager not seeing wireless

Bug #554987 reported by Wolter HV
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Bug Description

Everytime I reboot (because the exceptions during a year are countable with countable with fingers) the network-manager says there is no wireless interface--in its own way. What do I mean? Well, when I right click the applet, the 'Enable Wireless' option is greyed-out. In fact, the module wl doesn't load sometimes, but here is why I consider this bug to belong to network-manager-applet:

When I switch off and back on the wireless antenna, the WiFi icon in my computer lights up, indicating that the drivers for the network are loaded. At this point, network-manager-applet still says wireless is not accessible. The next thing I can do to prove you that the wireless is in fact working for the whole system but for network-manager-applet, is to run '# iwlist scan'--that returns some networks detected by my networking hardware; ergo, the card is working, its just that nm-applet isn't seeing it yet.

To prove even further my point, I decided to try out the wpa_supplicant, which is used to connect to networks through the command line interface--find the output attached. The thing is, after letting wpa_supplicant work for a while (during which network-manager-applet still thought that the wireless wasn't on) it got to connect to the network.

System: Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx'
App version: 0.8

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Wolter HV (wolterh) wrote :
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Wolter HV (wolterh) wrote :

Today (2010 April 4th) I booted after the updates and the network was loaded nicely. I thought that attaching a dmesg of it would be a fine addition to this bug. I will attach a dmesg when it doesn't load.

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Icyo (22-icyo) wrote :

Same problem here with Ubuntu 10.04 x64 kernel 2.6.32-22-generic , on a Dell Studio 1558 using Intel Advance-N 6200 interface.

I've try to restart the adapter 2 time with the hardware button

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