Sometimes wifi is unusable and detected as wired network
Bug #1576011 reported by
Kristin Chuang
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1574347: WiFi networks list disappears (device type not reloaded).
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This bug affects 4 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetworkManager |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| OEM Priority Project |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| Xenial |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| network-manager (Ubuntu) |
In Progress
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High
|
Aron Xu | ||
Bug Description
* Steps to reproduce:
1. Boot into Ubuntu
2. Check wifi connection in network-manager applet drop-down list
* Expected result:
A list of available APs should be listed and connection can be established after selecting one AP
* Actual result:
Sometimes the wifi device is listed as a "Ethernet network", and system will unsuccessfully try to connect to this non-existing ethernet network.
* Issue can be resolved by:
1. Warm boot
2. Cold boot
3. sudo service network-manager restart
* Wireless module:
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88W8897 [AVASTAR] 802.11ac Wireless [11ab:2b38]
* Network-manager:
1.1.93-0ubuntu3
(Please note that an older network-manager version 1.0.4-0ubuntu10 does not have this issue)
* Ubuntu: Xenial
| affects: | network-manager (Ubuntu) → oem-priority |
Revision history for this message
| Chih-Hsyuan Ho (chih) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Chih-Hsyuan Ho (chih) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in network-manager: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
| status: | New → Unknown |
| Changed in network-manager: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Revision history for this message
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| assignee: | nobody → Aron Xu (happyaron) |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
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