KNetworkManager Fails to "detect" wireless card

Bug #105130 reported by Andreas Wenning
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: knetworkmanager

KNetworkmanager stopped "detecting" wireless card. Only the part about "Wired devices" appears, the part about "Wireless" has disappeared.

I have no problems connecting to wireless networks using iwconfig; and wlassistant works without any problems.

Distro: Kubuntu feisty beta
Uname: Linux andreas-laptop 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
KNetworkManager: 0.1-0ubuntu11

The problem might have occurred with the last package update as I don't restart the KNetworkManager that often. A restart of the system has no effect.

Any further information needed?

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the contents of your '/etc/network/interfaces' file? Thanks in advance.

Changed in knetworkmanager:
assignee: nobody → brian-murray
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

/etc/network/interfaces

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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

Output of ifconfig

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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

Removing the last to lines from /etc/network/interfaces fixes the problem.
/etc/network/interfaces is auto-setup by kubuntu, haven't changed anything until now; but seems like some sort of unreliability in the Knetworkmanager wireless detection compared to wlassistant.

Can be closed; but if someone wants to look further into it, I will gladly provide some data.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Which two lines did you remove? I don't see an obvious difference between the two interfaces files.

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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

Seems I attached the backup instead. I changed from the previous attached one http://librarian.launchpad.net/7325619/interfaces to this:

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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

The above seems only to be part of a solution. Now KNetworkManager detects the wireless card nearly all the time, but after a suspend KNetworkManager sometimes fails to detect it. wlassistant, iwconfig etc. still works in these cases.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Could you please add the full contents of '/var/log/daemon.log' when network-manager fails to detect your wireless card? Thanks again.

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Francis (joseth-desc-amd) wrote :

Same problem described above.
I just fresh installed Feisty and at the 1st time Knetworkmanager detected my wireless and I was able to configure the WEP key. At this time KNM requested to open Kwallet and saved the key there . After this configuration, the network worked just fine.
Next morning , after the boot the wireless connection was down and the section "Wireless Devices" didnt show up anymore. Using iwconfig I was able to connect to my access point, but KNM still does not show the missing section.
Im attaching my deamon.log

Nanley Chery (nanoman)
Changed in knetworkmanager:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in knetworkmanager:
assignee: brian-murray → nobody
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Frank Bob (frankbob) wrote :

I'm seeing the same problem as the last comment.

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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

This problem has completely vanished in gutsy and hardy. If anyone still has the issue, feel free to reopen.

Changed in knetworkmanager:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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