NetworkManager

Ubuntu tries to set up my USB wireless device on a wired connection

Bug #1584970 reported by Matthew Fearnley on 2016-05-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1574347: WiFi networks list disappears (device type not reloaded). Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	NetworkManager	Unknown	Unknown	gnome-bugs #764803
	network-manager (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I start up from a Ubuntu 16.04 Live CD, I do not get a wireless network connection, instead it seems to see my USB device (a Belkin F5D8053 N Wireless USB Adapter) as a "wired connection".

If I do 'service network-manager restart', or unplug and replug the device, then it sets it up with the rt2800usb driver, gives it a wireless connection, and allows me to connect to wifi routers as normal.

A potentially similar issue has been reported with a GB-WB867D-I card at http://askubuntu.com/questions/758422/ubuntu-16-04-seeing-my-wireless-card-as-wired

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: network-manager 1.1.93-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 23 22:02:27 2016
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
10.42.0.0/24 dev enp0s25 proto kernel scope link src 10.42.0.1 metric 100
169.254.0.0/16 dev enp0s25 scope link metric 1000
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
NetworkManager.state:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
nmcli-con:
NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT AUTOCONNECT-PRIORITY READONLY DBUS-PATH ACTIVE DEVICE STATE ACTIVE-PATH
Wired connection 1 d553ccd9-63fb-494a-8ec6-59adc51a67f6 802-3-ethernet 1464040759 Mon 23 May 2016 09:59:19 PM UTC yes 4294966297 no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 yes enp0s25 activated /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3
Wired connection 2 b35063c3-365d-4287-85b2-882e449f4d13 802-3-ethernet 1464040460 Mon 23 May 2016 09:54:20 PM UTC yes 4294966297 no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 no -- -- --
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH CONNECTION CON-UUID CON-PATH
enp0s25 ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 Wired connection 1 d553ccd9-63fb-494a-8ec6-59adc51a67f6 /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3
wlx002275911486 ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2 -- -- --
lo loopback unmanaged /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 -- -- --
nmcli-nm: Error: command ['nmcli', '-f', 'all', 'nm'] failed with exit code 2: Error: Object 'nm' is unknown, try 'nmcli help'.

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Matthew Fearnley (matthew-w-fearnley) wrote on 2016-05-23:

CRDA.txt Edit (392 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (8.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (833 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (258 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (11.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.enp0s25.txt Edit (830 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.lo.txt Edit (249 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.wlx002275911486.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetworkManager.conf.txt Edit (75 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (665 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (94.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2016-05-24:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.