nm-applet does not property reflect the state of the wifi connection
Bug #601568 reported by
cosmix
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Summary:
In Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 2 with the ubuntu-provided sta/wl driver for Broadcom wifi chips, nm-applet does not property reflect the state of the wireless connection. Specifically, even though the system connects and authenticates with a WPA2-PSK secured network and the connection functions properly, nm-applet continues to show the red-exclamation icon.
Expected Results:
nm-applet should always reflect the current state of network connections.
Actual Results:
nm-applet does not show the current state of network connections when using Wifi.
Notes:
This symptom was not present in 10.04. Possibly related to #427261
affects: | ubuntu → network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
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Here's some more info on this bug. This doesn't appear to be (solely) a nm-applet bug. Specifically, nm-applet shows the fallback icon whenever the (buggy) wifi driver (in my case wl) does not report an association; This commit seems to have fixed this upstream (http:// git.gnome. org/browse/ network- manager- applet/ commit/ ?id=988e2ce74fd fbd013709498c34 d5924d30aed4e3) however the fix on the nm-applet side is only part of the equation. With it, and compiling the maverick source package, nm-applet shows the 'no-bars' icon, as intended.
This is not a sufficient fix, however, as --- for some reason I've not tried finding yet --- the BSSID is not reported as it should. This is the underlying reason for this bug and I will report this separately. Since maverick is still early in the dev. cycle I presume that the upstream 'fix' wrt to nm-applet will be incorporated before release so you can close this one.