network-manager sometimes thinks my wireless card is wired
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| network-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: network-manager
Seemingly arbitrarily, network manager will, instead of detecting my ipw2200 as being a wireless card, decide that it is instead a wired network card, and therefore fail to detect wireless APs or any similar behavior.
Repeated toggling of the Enable Networking checkbox on nm-applet will eventually resolve this.
When it occurs, it sees the card as being an ipw2200, recognizes the driver as ipw2200, but claims it is a Wired Networking Device. iwconfig still thinks it's a wireless card, of course, and I can even associate, DHCP, and do various network tasks over my "wired" ipw2200 whenever this occurs, presuming that I continue to DHCP whenever network-manager decides it's going to assign a 169.X.X.X address to my "wired" card.
| Kent deVillafranca (kdevilla) wrote | #1 |
I have this problem as well (ipw2200 on a Latitude X1) using Feisty, and so far it's happening 2/3rds of the time I come out of suspend or hibernate.
Unchecking "enable networking" in network-manager and then enabling it again fixes the problem, but it's still annoying (and never happened in Edgy)