networking and wireless checkboxes of nm-applet are disabled

[Paul Brauner]

Binary package hint: network-manager

* release:
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10

* package version:
network-manager 0.8.1+git.20100810t184654
network-manager-gnome 0.8.1+git.20100809t190028

* expected:
Being able to enable/disable networking or wireless through the right mouse button menu using checkboxes.

* what happened:
I can't: they are "grayed".

My wifi device is : Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: network-manager 0.8.1+git.20100810t184654.ab580f4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic-pae 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
Date: Tue Sep 14 09:26:07 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
IpRoute:
 194.47.15.0/24 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 194.47.15.247 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth2 scope link metric 1000
 default via 194.47.15.1 dev eth2 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
SourcePackage: network-manager

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Hi,

Can you please confirm when this showed and and whether this is still the case? I've noticed this kind of thing happening right after an upgrade until a restart, but not as much after.

Thanks!

[Paul Brauner (polux2001)]

Hello,

actually, it sometimes happens, sometimes not, and I can't tell when. I'm sure it happened recently, after several reboots since the upgrade.

Paul

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Please make sure you upgrade to network-manager-gnome 0.8.1+git.20100809t190028.290dc70-0ubuntu3, this is a bug that was fixed yesterday.