knetworkmanager will no longer connect

[Daniel Miles]

Binary package hint: network-manager-kde

As of the most recent update in Kubuntu Intrepid, Knetworkmanager will no longer connect to a wireless network for me. This is an unsecured network. It works fine with wired networks.

I'm pretty sure that the issue is with knetworkmanager rather than the backend, as I installed gnome's nm-applet and this connected fine to the same network.

[Daniel Miles (themono)]

I hope I'm correct subscribing you to this, Alexander - you seem to be the guru of all things NM0.7 so thought this should be seen by you.

[Christophe Olinger (olingerc)]

Same for me here. Intrepid kubuntu 64 bit fully updated. Wireless stopped working when I updated this morning.

Also, the wireless strength seems weaker than with hardy (a few days ago when it still worked)

[Tore Anderson (toreanderson)]

Confirmed (fully updated i386 Kubuntu, using iwl3945 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X61s). Reverting to NM0.6 resolves the issue.

Another thing worth noting is that the menu shown when the tray icon is clicked only shows my own wireless network (perhaps due to it being found in the configuration file). Not sure if this is intentional or not - NM0.6 behaviour was to show all networks in range (and GNOME's nm-applet still does after the upgrade). The box displayed by «Edit Connections... -> New Connection -> Wireless» shows a list of all networks in range, though.

Tore

[Philipp Ehses (ehses-deactivatedaccount)]

Confirmed here, too.

Until yesterday, I had this problem only with vpn-connections (which I rarely use). Wireless is of course much more important for me.

knetworkmanager does not even seem to try to connect to a network.

[Jeremy Wilkins (wjeremy)]

I have done extensive testing on this issue and it doesn't even seem like KNetworkManager is doing anything at all. There are no debug messages. Its as if I clicked on a non-menu item when selecting a network. Even creating a new connection has no effect. I have tried both my Realtek 8185 using rtl8180 and my USB TrendNet TEW-424UB using zd1211rw. Both had no results.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Subscribed Jonathan who packaged the current knetworkmanager: did knetworkmanager upstream already update their svn to match the changed APIs on NM trunk?

[Daniel Miles (themono)]

Yes, to clarify on this, when i first switched to Alexander's PPA with NM 0.7, Knetworkmanager worked a treat. Same with the packages in Intrepid when 0.7 was brought in. But then the most recent update to Knetworkmanager killed it.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

I have the same problem on HP nw8440 with 3945ABG. It works fine if I use nm-applet (from network-manager-gnome) package.
I am using WPA2 Personal.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

It seems some API changes are in upstream SVN - not sure if this is enough:

r848503 | hschaa | 2008-08-18 00:56:31 +0200 (Mon, 18 Aug 2008) | 2 lines

Again NM API changes (breaks all VPNPlugins)

[Christophe Olinger (olingerc)]

Downlaoaded the kubuntu dailies from today and installed them. Wireless was ok. Then I did a full upgrade and now I have the same problems as before aka, wireless visible but it does not connect

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:44:28PM -0000, Christophe Olinger wrote:
> Downlaoaded the kubuntu dailies from today and installed them. Wireless
> was ok. Then I did a full upgrade and now I have the same problems as
> before aka, wireless visible but it does not connect
>

Can someone try if the new upstream sources work with the current NM
in my PPA?

 - Alexander

[Christophe Olinger (olingerc)]

Hey Alexander,

I enabled your ppa and upgraded. The "not connecting" problem still persists. I can see the connection but it won't connect. When I start knetworkmanager from the terminal and click on my wireless connection he just says "activate ...." with a long path containing freedesktop.org stuff. Sorry, I am on an another computer and can not verify.
Still connecting with nm-applet. Interestingly as soon as nm-applet is connected, knetworkmanager does so too!? It seems as if nm-applet helps knetworkmanager to overcome an obstacle?

- Christophe

[Daniel Miles (themono)]

As I understand it, Knetworkmanager sends a signal to the NM daemon to connect. The NM daemon sends back status messages, and Knetworkmanager updates the icon to reflect these.

What seems to be happening, is nm-applet sends the message to connect, which Knetworkmanager cannot do, but Knetworkmanager is still able to get the status updates back and update its icon. So it is really just reporting back on what nm-applet ordered.

[waustin (waustin)]

It's already confirmed, but one more can't hurt. I can connect to a wired network just fine, but wireless will not connect (though it is seen) as of 8/20.

[hardhu (qzerty)]

I have a similar problem here with intrepid. With knetworkmanager I can see my wireless network (and those of my neighbors too...) but when I try to associate nothing happens, regardless of the fact I am using authentication or not. It is also worth to mention that when knetwormanager is running, I cannot even connect to my wireless network using iwconfig: what I get is that my wireless card keeps on disassociating from the ap with error 'disassociate(reason=3)' when I force the association with iwconfig. If instead I quit knetworkmanager (be careful: I exactly mean 'quit', not switching on offline mode) then I can manually associate to the ap without problems and I can run dhclient with no problems.

[Pascal d'Hermilly (pascal-tipisoft)]

I can confirm that this is still happening

[Sokraates (sokraates)]

This not only affects wireless WIFI but also wireless USB-modems (Huawei E220 here). The modem works with e.g. Vodafone Mobile Connect Card Driver (using it right now).

The symptoms are the same as with WIFI: The modem is shown as disconnected and can't be activated through knetworkmanager. It remains deactivated for knetworkmanager even though it is activated using another tool.

[TFrog (stgparris)]

I just reloaded Kubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 again this morning and ran the updates. Even with the SVN version of knetworkmanager, I still am able to see the network that I connect to but no others (I know there are others around). I cannot connect though. My system is a Compaq R4125US laptop with a Broadcom 4318 wireless chipset. I have no problems with the base Alpha 4 and connecting. It's just after updating I'm unable to connect. I also noted the use of what appears to be the very latest kernel in this update (2.6.27). If I load regular Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 I don't have this issue. I'll try again in a few days or after Alpha 5 is released. Otherwise, Kubuntu 8.10 looks promising.

[hardhu (qzerty)]

I don't know if this is related to this bug, however: today I connected for the first time my notebook to the wired network of the university where I work. I need to set a manual ip configuration with the ip address assigned to my notebook to have the connection working, even if the gateway I connect to has a dhcp server running (that is used for students that connect to the wireless netwok using a vpn client). What is happened is that knetworkmanager as boot establish a dhcp connection to the gateway, and it assigns me an ip address that doesn't work for me; then I create a new connection with the correct values for ip address and netmask, using the 'new connection' menu from knetworkmanager, and choosing the manual ip configuration. Neverthless, when I try to save the connection and to connect, nothing happens, and a look to syslog gives me this message:

Aug 29 14:33:18 eagle NetworkManager: <WARN> connection_get_settings_cb(): connection_get_settings_cb: Invalid connection: 'NMSettingIP4Config' / 'addresses' invalid: 1

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

"did knetworkmanager upstream already update their svn to match the changed APIs on NM trunk?"

No

[TFrog (stgparris)]

I just finished reloading Alpha 4 of Kubuntu 8.10 and updated it at around 7:30pm EST USA time today. Once rebooted to load new kernel and all updates knetworkmanager again showed the appropriate network to connect to but no others in the vicinity when I know there is at least 2 or 3 other networks. Again it failed to connect to the default (my network).

I attempted a manual configuration applying the appropriate information and knetworkmanager continued to fail to connect. This is a very odd issue. If I were to load Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 with all updates I don't get this issue. Only with Kubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 with all updates do I have this issue. I've also tried loading the KDE desktop on top of Ubuntu 8.10. the session manager will fail to locate KDE but that is another issue altogether.

[Christophe Olinger (olingerc)]

Will this be fixed for alpha 5? As far as I got it it is an upstream problem, isnt'it?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:13AM -0000, Christophe Olinger wrote:
> Will this be fixed for alpha 5? As far as I got it it is an upstream
> problem, isnt'it?
>

Yes, we are waiting for upstream knetworkmanager to support the latest
dbus API.

 - Alexander

[Anish Bhatt (anish7)]

Problem persists in Alpha 5. I can see connections, but cannot connect. Knetworkmanager fails silently, without giving any indication. No connection progress bar is seen either.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:25:37AM -0000, anish wrote:
> Problem persists in Alpha 5. I can see connections, but cannot connect.
> Knetworkmanager fails silently, without giving any indication. No
> connection progress bar is seen either.
>

could someone just try if the latest svn snapshot of knetworkmanger
works better?

 - Alexander

[Oscar (osh-nbit)]

Haven't tried the latest svn but I've noticed that things start to work after I kill wpa_supplicant. Before that everything is dead.
This is on Dell Latitude D810 (ipw2200).

[Awaka (egf-vd-geer)]

Kubuntu 8.10 alpha 5 full updated still got problem

[KevinM (kevbert1)]

Same problem here with Broadcom BCM4306 on Kubuntu 64bit kernel 2.6.27.2. Funnily enough I get two lots of my network shown when I click on available networks. The output from my card is reported as -27dB and input to it is 0 when using iwconfig??? I tried the same install method with Ubuntu 64bit (2.6.27.2) on the same PC and it works fine.

[Santiago Zarate (foursixnine)]

Same problem her :S

[J Janz (jjanz)]

The same still happens to alpha 5 updated till last night. It feels like it just misses start connecting, despite of creating/editing wireless connections correctly. BTW, I too feel a regression in functionality (that knm0.7's menu isn't showing available wireless networks as before, adding steps to what was simplier - as pointed previously here).

So, being these 2 issues, why don't we drop 0.7 and go back to a version that solves them (at least, till 0.7 is ok)?

[Thomas Whm (twhm)]

Maybe that this is not a problem of Knetworkmanager. Within alpha 5 a'm not able to connect to wireless network with iwconfig / dhclient:
*************************************************
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifconfig eth1 up
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo iwconfig eth1 mode managed key open s:xyzxyzxyzxyzx essid whmnet
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dhclient eth1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:13:ce:16:87:b5
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:13:ce:16:87:b5
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
*************************************************

Normally - in other versions - this will work fine.

I am using PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection.

[Oscar (osh-nbit)]

To Thomas Whm.
Try killing wpa_supplicant and try that again. If that doesn't work also kill networkmanager.

This will give an idea on where the problem might be as I see it. If things start working after wpa_supplicant is dead, then the problem is probably there somewhere. Wouldn't you agree?

[Thomas Whm (twhm)]

Oscar, you are right. After killing processes 'NetworkManager' and 'wpa_supplicant' ifconfig, iwconfig and dhclient are working right. Thanks for your request.

[Khem Raj (khem-raj)]

killing newtworkmanager does not help. But killing wpa_supplicant helps however when I kill wpa_supplicant. System restarts it. So it never gets killed. I removed wpasupplicant package itself. Now that helps and I get connected to wireless network but when I reboot system it does not reconnect. Reinstalling wpasupplicant and rebooting again removing wpasupplicant helps.

[Khem Raj (khem-raj)]

Now I did replace /sbin/wpa_supplicant with a soft link to /bin/true (to make sure that it was wpa_supplicant) now I do

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed key xxxxxxxxxx essid MANIMAHESH
sudo dhclient3 wlan0

and it connects all the time.

[Martin Nowack (martin-nowack)]

Tested last revision (859085, 2008-09-09) from svn, doesn't work either.

Now, the funny thing: used the gnome applet in parallel which also tries to connect but does not work. But it seams to get a little bit further because it tries to connect and this is also indicated through knetworkmanager (rolling wheel and the half bar is shown).
I currently tried to connect to a WPA2 encrypted network which doesn't work. Can't change the encryption.

So maybe some of you should install package "network-manager-gnome" logout and loginto kde and then the applet is shown and try to connect through this if at least this works.

[savasten (savasten)]

"So maybe some of you should install package "network-manager-gnome" logout and loginto kde and then the applet is shown and try to connect through this if at least this works."

If I uninstall network-manager-kde and install the network-manager-gnome all is fine. I am using the latest SVN also.

Is this bug caused by the need/want to have NM-kde control WAN cards also? Does NM-kde work for any wi-fi?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:20:16PM -0000, savasten wrote:
> "So maybe some of you should install package "network-manager-gnome"
> logout and loginto kde and then the applet is shown and try to connect
> through this if at least this works."
>
> If I uninstall network-manager-kde and install the network-manager-gnome
> all is fine. I am using the latest SVN also.
>
> Is this bug caused by the need/want to have NM-kde control WAN cards
> also? Does NM-kde work for any wi-fi?
>

No ... atm you need to use nm-applet on kde to establish a connection.

 - Alexander

[Dhaval Patel (dhuv)]

Bal, which package contains nm-applet? I only see network-manager-kde and
network-manager-gnome.

Thanks,
Dhaval

Alexander Sack <email address hidden> wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:20:16PM -0000, savasten wrote:
>> "So maybe some of you should install package "network-manager-gnome"
>> logout and loginto kde and then the applet is shown and try to connect
>> through this if at least this works."
>>
>> If I uninstall network-manager-kde and install the network-manager-gnome
>> all is fine. I am using the latest SVN also.
>>
>> Is this bug caused by the need/want to have NM-kde control WAN cards
>> also? Does NM-kde work for any wi-fi?
>>
>
>No ... atm you need to use nm-applet on kde to establish a connection.
>
> - Alexander
>
>--
>knetworkmanager will no longer connect
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259278
>You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>of a duplicate bug.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:09:25AM -0000, dhuv wrote:
> Bal, which package contains nm-applet? I only see network-manager-kde and
> network-manager-gnome.

The -gnome one.

 - Alexander

[lophiomys (lophiomys)]

Bug confirmed on Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6, fresh install on Thinkpad T42p 2373 with Intel WLAN
KNetworkManager does timeout on wireless connection, but cable connection works.
HTH
/Lophiomys

ibmuser@T42pUXGA:~$ uname -a
Linux T42pUXGA 2.6.27-3-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:02:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

SysLog:
2008-09-20 20:43:50 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA kernel [ 853.168066] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 2
2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] HCI dev 0 down
2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] Stopping security manager 0
2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] Device hci0 has been disabled
2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA kernel [ 853.170437] btusb_intr_complete: hci0 urb f68ec700 failed to resubmit (19)
2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA kernel [ 853.171203] btusb_send_frame: hci0 urb f4381900 submission failed
2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] HCI dev 0 unregistered
2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] Unregister path: /org/bluez/hci0
2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] Device hci0 has been removed
2008-09-20 20:47:06 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch
2008-09-20 20:47:06 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): device state change: 3 -> 2
2008-09-20 20:47:06 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): deactivating device.
2008-09-20 20:47:06 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): taking down device.
2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> Wireless now enabled by radio killswitch
2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <WARN> nm_device_wifi_set_enabled(): not in expected unavailable state!
2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): bringing up device.
2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): device state change: 2 -> 3
2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state change: 1 -> 2.
2008-09-20 20:48:19 T42pUXGA anacron[5364] Job `cron.monthly' started
2008-09-20 20:48:19 T42pUXGA anacron[7673] Updated timestamp for job `cron.monthly' to 2008-09-20
2008-09-20 20:48:19 T42pUXGA anacron[5364] Job `cron.monthly' terminated
2008-09-20 20:48:19 T42pUXGA anacron[5364] Normal exit (3 jobs run)
2008-09-20 21:05:05 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

lshw:
    *-network:1
        description: Wireless interface
                product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
                vendor: Intel Corporation ...

[WarrenTurkal (wturkal)]

You know, I see that solid has some support for network manager. Is
there just some piece of software that wasn't added to Intrepid that
uses the Solid interface?

wt

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:10 PM, lophiomys <email address hidden> wrote:
> Bug confirmed on Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6, fresh install on Thinkpad T42p 2373 with Intel WLAN
> KNetworkManager does timeout on wireless connection, but cable connection works.
> HTH
> /Lophiomys
>
> ibmuser@T42pUXGA:~$ uname -a
> Linux T42pUXGA 2.6.27-3-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:02:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> SysLog:
> 2008-09-20 20:43:50 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
> 2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA kernel [ 853.168066] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 2
> 2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] HCI dev 0 down
> 2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] Stopping security manager 0
> 2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] Device hci0 has been disabled
> 2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA kernel [ 853.170437] btusb_intr_complete: hci0 urb f68ec700 failed to resubmit (19)
> 2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA kernel [ 853.171203] btusb_send_frame: hci0 urb f4381900 submission failed
> 2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] HCI dev 0 unregistered
> 2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] Unregister path: /org/bluez/hci0
> 2008-09-20 20:47:03 T42pUXGA hcid[5300] Device hci0 has been removed
> 2008-09-20 20:47:06 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch
> 2008-09-20 20:47:06 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): device state change: 3 -> 2
> 2008-09-20 20:47:06 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): deactivating device.
> 2008-09-20 20:47:06 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): taking down device.
> 2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> Wireless now enabled by radio killswitch
> 2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <WARN> nm_device_wifi_set_enabled(): not in expected unavailable state!
> 2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): bringing up device.
> 2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): device state change: 2 -> 3
> 2008-09-20 20:47:18 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state change: 1 -> 2.
> 2008-09-20 20:48:19 T42pUXGA anacron[5364] Job `cron.monthly' started
> 2008-09-20 20:48:19 T42pUXGA anacron[7673] Updated timestamp for job `cron.monthly' to 2008-09-20
> 2008-09-20 20:48:19 T42pUXGA anacron[5364] Job `cron.monthly' terminated
> 2008-09-20 20:48:19 T42pUXGA anacron[5364] Normal exit (3 jobs run)
> 2008-09-20 21:05:05 T42pUXGA NetworkManager <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection w...

[Markus Golser (golserma)]

Same problem here Version: 1:0.7svn830754-0ubuntu3

[Jan de Mooij (jandemooij)]

From upstream:

"Just submitted a new KNetworkManager to STABLE that catches up with the new NM
API. Should appear in the next 11.1 beta."

Would be nice to get this in Intrepid too.

[Clay Weber (claydoh)]

With the new network-manager backend that was just released
(0.7~~svn20080908t183521+eni0-0ubuntu4) I am able to connect with knetworkmanager.(which I think hasn't been updated)

Don't know if it is a fluke or not until I get home and try connecting again :)

[savasten (savasten)]

Unfortunately it still does not work for me dmesg shows:

[ 303.527405] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
[ 309.469508] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
[ 310.115127] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
etc...

I will just sit back hurry and wait for the excellent work of poeple much smarter than me.

[WarrenTurkal (wturkal)]

I just tried it and found it doesn't work. However, the GNOME
nm-applet still seems to work.

wt

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:46 PM, savasten <email address hidden> wrote:
> Unfortunately it still does not work for me dmesg shows:
>
>
> [ 303.527405] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
> [ 309.469508] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
> [ 310.115127] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
> etc...
>
> I will just sit back hurry and wait for the excellent work of poeple
> much smarter than me.
>
> --
> knetworkmanager will no longer connect
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259278
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package knetworkmanager - 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1

---------------
knetworkmanager (1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot, now works with current NM API,
    closes LP: #259278

 -- Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:40:26 +0100

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

I found the deb for the new knetworkmanager version, but it requires a higher version of libxi6. Is there a deb for that as well that I can install without breaking something else?

[Markus Golser (golserma)]

Works for me now!

[Daniel Miles (themono)]

Yes, confirmed fixed. Thanks Jonathan.

[WarrenTurkal (wturkal)]

Me too! Good work, and thanks for working on this issue.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Markus Golser <email address hidden> wrote:
> Works for me now!
>
> --
> knetworkmanager will no longer connect
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259278
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

[birdflesh (birdflesh)]

Still not working for me (manual wired configuration).
Using the gnome applet.

[Sokraates (sokraates)]

Works with wired, wireless (WIFI) and USB 3G-modem.

However, autoconnection does not work for WIFI and USB 3G-modem.

[Michael Calabrese (m2calabr)]

When I first tested it did not work. I was running nm-applet at the same time, so I killed that and quit knetwork manager, then restarted knetworkmanager.

That made it work.

Now I just have to figure out how to stop nm-applet from loading.

Thanks for all of your help.

[FriedChicken (domlyons)]

Thanks, everything is working for me.
I can't confirm that autoconnection doesn't work for WLAN as Sokraates says.

@ Michael Calabrese:
The only way I found is to remove/purge network-manager-gnome.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

I had gotten knetworkmanager to work, but on upgrade to intrepid beta, it failed again. Currently, if I left-click on the knetworkmanager tray icon and select a valid network, the tray icon flashes to the gear icon (working), but then reverts quickly to the grey globe icon, and will not connect. There are no messages reported under dmesg.

I'm running up-to-date intrepid,l with knetworkmanager version 0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1.

Any ideas?

[Jason Straight (jason-jeetkunedomaster)]

I have noticed that with my laptop when I suspend and resume that module ath_pci needs to be unloaded and reloaded then ifconfig'ed up. Which isn't really something knetworkmanager should be doing - just a heads up for others who may still have issues connecting to wireless networks. I'm going to file a report on that soon, if there isn't one already.

[Anish Bhatt (anish7)]

Works fine in Kubuntu Intrepid Beta. However, Knetworkmanager does not show available wireless networks when you right click on systray icon. It does list avilable wireless connections in the manually add connection menu.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

Okay - I just did a complete purge of network-manager, knetworkmanager, network-manager-kde, network-manager-gnome, and libnm-glib0, reinstalled all of them (but network-manager-gnome) and it seems to be working correctly! Must have been some residual config somewhere.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

Doesn't work AGAIN. Was fine this morning (hadn't shut off from last night), but shut down, came in to work this morning, and the same old crap all over again - it won't connect unless I plug in a cable - it's not even trying. Click on the network, the grey world icon flashes to the gear and flashes back again.

I can accept that it's just my crazy machine, except that it works with the gnome applet and wicd. I'd just REALLY like to be using knetworkmanager, which seems to not be able to make up its mind whether to work or not.

[Pseudorandom (pseudorandomname)]

I'm jumping into this a little late, but I'm running an up-to-date (as of time of writing) Kubuntu Intrepid beta and I'm seeing the same thing. When I try to connect to wireless, either thorough a new connection or one I already set up, it stays as a grey globe and doesn't even attempt to connect to the network. Think Pad T61p, Intel 4965AG. Was working last night, but after I shut down the next time it came up, I started seeing this problem.

[TFrog (stgparris)]

I just downloaded a daily build of Intrepid a week ago and knetwork manager is currently working. However, I do need to update it and see if it continues to work. Will most likely do that tomorrow morning as I have this on another drive not currently installed into my laptop. Of course, like anish, wireless networks doesn't show up upon right clicking the globe in the system tray. But doing a manual add shows all available networks. I can live with that though it would be much easier to right click and then click on the network you want to connect to even if it does bring up a password screen. I'll adress this further once I've updated.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

So my latest note is this - I seem to be able to connect fine to my home network - I'm connected now. But of the three networks I use at the workplace (two WEP, one LEAP) it does not function. I'll try to post /var/log/daemon.txt output tomorrow.

[James Rosser (jarosser06)]

I don't have a problem connecting my problem is staying connected. It seems at random times my connection fails and knetwork manager just appears to be still connected. Is there a way to fix this, i have to disable the wireless card and re-enable it every time this happens and its beginning to become a nuisance. I have run all of the updates and the problem still seems to persist, and i know its not the router becuase it does it no matter what router i connect to, my card works fine on Vista and with Ubuntu's nm-applet.

[Jesse van Herk (jesse-imaginaryrobots)]

Seems fixed for me with iwl3945 driver; networkmanager successfully connects to a WEP encrypted access point and the access point shows up when clicking on the system tray.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 03:05:12PM -0000, charles.figura wrote:
> Doesn't work AGAIN. Was fine this morning (hadn't shut off from last
> night), but shut down, came in to work this morning, and the same old
> crap all over again - it won't connect unless I plug in a cable - it's
> not even trying. Click on the network, the grey world icon flashes to
> the gear and flashes back again.
>
> I can accept that it's just my crazy machine, except that it works with
> the gnome applet and wicd. I'd just REALLY like to be using
> knetworkmanager, which seems to not be able to make up its mind whether
> to work or not.
>

Please ensure that you have _no_ configurations in
/etc/network/interfaces. If its not that, hope for another
knetworkmanager update.

 - Alexander

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

Alexander -

/etc/network/interfaces just has the standard
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

I was testing out on my *other* network as well - with static IP. I could get neither the wired nor wireless to work there, no error messages on dmesg. And, as before, it works fine under gnome's nm-applet.

Yep, I'm hoping...

[Ran.Rutenberg (ran-rutenberg)]

I'm suffering from the same problem. I'm using Kubuntu Intrepid Beta fully updated and I can't connect set the IP manually. It works fine if I'm using DHCP. Reading the previous comments here, I tried installing network-manager-gnome and using nm-applet to configure and connect to the network. This work around indeed helped.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

More testing, here's what I got:
WEP/DHCP - Works!
WEP/Static IP - FAILS
hardwired/static IP - FAILS
LEAP (either ieee802.1X OR WPA Enterprise) - FAILS.

The LEAP I've tried BOTH under the iwl3945 built-in and under my USB wireless (zd1211rw). Leap works under gnome nm-applet, DOES NOT WORK under knetworkmanager.

I can attach output of /var/log/daemon.log, if that's useful.

[buguy (buguy)]

aptitude install nscd
this resolved my problem

[hardhu (qzerty)]

Tried today on a fresh intrepid beta install: it does work with wpa encrypted wireless network and ip address assigned with dhcp, it doesn't work with a wired network where ip address is statically set using manual configuration.

[TFrog (stgparris)]

Since updating, I no longer have an issue with knetworkmanager. Of course, I'm using a Broadcom 4318 chipset for my wireless connection. I'll be updating again today to verify that it's still connecting without issues. Unfortunately, I have no way of testing on a secure network at this time but open networks seem to work fine for now.

[kelvie (kelvie)]

I don't think that KNetworkManager is detecting the cipher settings properly for WPA enterprise -- I had to manually set PEAP as the key type and untick the CCMP ciphers (the connection here only uses TKIP).

The old KDE3 version of KNetworkManager correctly detected these settings.

[TFrog (stgparris)]

Just finished updating. Still no issues with unsecure networks. Unfortunately, I still have no secure network to test out on. But all seems to work well with Broadcom driver.

[WarrenTurkal (wturkal)]

I have found that when I cannot connect to a secured wireless net,
removing my .kde directory and starting fresh fixes it. However, I do
kinda think that this is a less than ideal solution.

wt

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:08 PM, TFrog <email address hidden> wrote:
> Just finished updating. Still no issues with unsecure networks.
> Unfortunately, I still have no secure network to test out on. But all
> seems to work well with Broadcom driver.
>
> --
> knetworkmanager will no longer connect
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259278
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

[davekempe (dave-solutionsfirst)]

Having similar problems here. Deleting .kde directory did not fix it. Latest intrepid as of today.
However, I found that when I did a suspend to disk operation from the shutdown menu, the suspend failed, but the wifi light came on on my laptop and kdenetwork manager was able to connect straight away (like it used to with hardy). I have a Dell Vostro 1200, which has an intel wireless a/b/g card (Intel Pro/wireless 4965 AG or AGN (Kedron)
wifi light on the front was not working before I tried the suspend to disk. The wifi toggle button doesn't work either.

[hardhu (qzerty)]

I don't understand why the status of this bug has changed to "fix released", since as of today Intrepid update knetworkmanager keeps on not connecting to a wired network with manual configuration, and the error message I can see in syslog is the following:
Oct 21 09:52:46 eagle NetworkManager: <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/1 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service

I have also nm-applet on my kde destop, and if I use it instead of knetworkmanager, everything works, so I am pretty sure thata knetworkmanager is the culprit, so for me this bug is not fixed at all.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

I'll second hardhu's comment - no connection on static IP OR on LEAP networks.
Does work on WEP with DHCP, though.

[debankur (ghosh-debankur)]

I have kubuntu 8.10 beta 1 and have the same problem on my Thinkpad T42p with Atheros Card. Network manager kde is not able to connect to wireless LEAP that I have in my office. However, if I try to connect to the same network manually by stopping network manager, I am able to connect.

wpa_supplicant.conf file :

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
ap_scan=1
update_config=1
network={
        ssid="XXX"
        scan_ssid=1
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        eap=LEAP
        identity="XXXXXXXXXX"
        password="XXXXXX"
}

# lsmod | grep ath
ath_rate_onoe 14088 0
ath_rate_minstrel 22144 0
ath_rate_amrr 14468 0
ath_rate_sample 21248 1
ath_pci 217656 0
wlan 239984 12 ath_rate_onoe,ath_rate_minstrel,ath_rate_amrr,wlan_xauth,wlan_wep,wlan_tkip,wlan_ccmp,wlan_acl,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 259552 4 ath_rate_minstrel,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci

# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-office.conf
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
......
CTRL-EVENT-EAP-SUCCESS EAP authentication completed successfully

# dhclient ath0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
.....
bound to 193.145.189.227 -- renewal in 19047 seconds.

I am not sure why network-manager-kde fails to connect when I can do the same using the above command lines.

[trylik (marek-nasionka)]

the same problem is on my computer

first i installed mythubuntu 8.10

and everthing was ok (aetheros chipset by the way, what suprised me a lot)

then i added kde4 but knetwork manager still is worth nothing, sadly

i can see networks but i cant connect, even pluging wired internet gives nothing

please fix it as soosn as possible,

i can see this bug since alpha 3, it is realy annoying

i have the same problem on my laptop, with intel wireless

[Primoz (papic644)]

Same at me, just that I have cable FTTH connection and not wireless. So I don't know if this is the same problem.
It died yesterday and some time ago. The first time I managed to get it back on with hard reset on my modem.
No even that doesn't help.
I'm using Kubuntu 8.10 RC.
It might not be a this bug at me, as once it didn't work on my Windows as well, but I didn't give it much thought I just went back to
Kubuntu and it worked fine...
I ran dhclient and it said that "my network is sleeping" (I don't know exactly what it said)

[Primoz (papic644)]

Oh I remembered that it doesn't work on my Ubuntu live CD (7.04) so it's probably not this bug...
But would still someone help me with my problem?

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

So is anyone still monitoring this (aside from those of us who can't get it to work)? I still don't understand how we have 'fix released' - it's STILL NOT WORKING.

I've attached the output of /var/log/daemon.log for attempts to connect to my campus LEAP system from using two different wifi cards, the built-in iwl3945 and a USB wifi stick. There are known problems with the iwl3945 driver, but the USB wifi stick had been working just fine under wicd, the old knetworkmanager (0.2), and the nm-applet. Now neither one works for LEAP (or for static IP, separate network) at all.

[Thomas Dreibholz (dreibh)]

I have installed Kubuntu 8.10, including all updates, on an IBM ThinkPad R50p. It has an Atheros wireless included (lspci:
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)). knetworkmanager does not work for my wireless. I tested it with two different networks having hidden ESSIDs as well as an open network: it never succeeded to connect to any of these networks. However, when turning knetworkmanager off and configuring the interface manually (using iwconfig and ifconfig), the wireless works fine.

[mumismo (mumismo)]

It seems that there does exist a knetworkmanager that is in sync with the new API and that seems to solve this bug. But as of this writing, the Intrepid package has not being updated to that release.
This bug should be open till then (BTW, confirmed here, sigh)

[mumismo (mumismo)]

Oh, I was wrong, the package is already using the new upstream code. According to the changelog of the the last update (October 26th) or network-manager-kde the new GUI is in fact using the new NM API, still it seems that some users have the problem.

[WarrenTurkal (wturkal)]

I have a IPW2200 and it works when I get my associate with WPA2 PSK
and get my address with DHCP. I don't know about the other cases.

wt

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:04 AM, mumismo <email address hidden> wrote:
> Oh, I was wrong, the package is already using the new upstream code.
> According to the changelog of the the last update (October 26th) or
> network-manager-kde the new GUI is in fact using the new NM API, still
> it seems that some users have the problem.
>
> --
> knetworkmanager will no longer connect
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259278
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

[Jeremy Wilkins (wjeremy)]

This was probably already mentioned earlier, but what I have noticed is that my wireless works just fine with DHCP and WEP/WPA networks, but if the nm-applet (which is called network-manager-gnome in Ubuntu) is installed knetworkmanager doesn't work, but nm-applet does. If uninstalling nm-applet doesn't fix your problem, reinstall it and use it instead of knetworkmanager for now. I have found it generally better at supporting the NetworkManager core. I'm sure this will be fixed though, but probably for the next release of Ubuntu.

[tzekwangteo (tkteo)]

I was going to install network-manager-gnome in place of network-manager-kde, just to try to see if my situation is resolved. But as of right now, installing the -gnome version of the applet also entails installing additional packages such as libgweather, libsexy2, mobile-broadband-provider-info, notification-daemon, libpolkit-gnome0, libmbca0.

Is there a reason why there are so many additional dependencies for network-manager-gnome?

[trylik (marek-nasionka)]

it is working for me now

connectiong to WPA WEP as well

great job

[jacoor (jacek-jacoor)]

Hi
I had the problem as well - NM didn't connect after suspend to ram or reboot.
Trylik, could you please check if it does reconnect properly now after suspend to ram? Did You install the NM from official repos or somewhere else (link please)?
For now as a workaround i use wicd which works quite fine...

Thanks in advance for any information.

[wli222 (wli222)]

I have also a problem when connecting to my wireless device.

r
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
administrator@ubuntu:~$
administrator@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
administrator@ubuntu:~$

dmesg output

[ 24.671126] Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
[ 24.671131] Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:00.0, mfunc 0x01d21b22, devctl 0x64
[ 24.792533] ipw2200: Intel(;R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 24.792539] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
knetworkmanager console output[

administrator@ubuntu:~$ knetworkmanager
kbuildsycoca running...
NMSettings::NMSettings
restore setting: ConnectionSetting_rBMZwwOv5Kvy7oEl_connection
restore setting: ConnectionSetting_rBMZwwOv5Kvy7oEl_802-3-ethernet
restore setting: ConnectionSetting_rBMZwwOv5Kvy7oEl_ipv4
administrator@ubuntu:~$ Connection::GetSettings, obj: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0
  Processing Setting 'connection'
  Attach setting 'connection'
    autoconnect: <bool>true</bool>
    id: <string>t</string>
    type: <string>802-3-ethernet</string>
    uuid: <string>rBMZwwOv5Kvy7oEl</string>
  Processing Setting '802-3-ethernet'
  Attach setting '802-3-ethernet'
    auto-negotiate: <bool>true</bool>
    mtu: <uint32>0</uint32>
    speed: <uint32>0</uint32>
  Processing Setting 'ipv4'
  Attach setting 'ipv4'
    ignore-auto-dns: <bool>false</bool>
    ignore-auto-routes: <bool>false</bool>
    method: <string>auto</string>
Connection::GetSettings, obj: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0
  Processing Setting 'connection'
  Attach setting 'connection'
    autoconnect: <bool>true</bool>
    id: <string>t</string>
    type: <string>802-3-ethernet</string>
    uuid: <string>rBMZwwOv5Kvy7oEl</string>
  Processing Setting '802-3-ethernet' ...

[trylik (marek-nasionka)]

@jacoor

well most of the times it manages to connect even after suspend to RAM, but not all the time

for ex i have been at work and wpa wifi connection was active

then i moved to bluetooth hsdpa phone as internet source

then suspended to ram

then woken up at the cafe - no internet

then suspended to ram

then woken up at home - wifi connection active and working....

very strange

this is my version:
knetworkmanager:
  Installed: 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

i cleared my /etc/network/interfaces file to have it working, maybe try this?

[jacoor (jacek-jacoor)]

@trylik
Thanks for your answer - I tried everything with old version of NM (restarting HAL, clearing config files, restarting networking)
and.. The only thing that worked from time to time was right key on tray icon, disable wireless, wait a minute, enable and try to connect.
I think I will watch this topic and for now I stay with wicd - works just fine.

Thanks again for posting.

[naught101 (naught101)]

I'm also having this problem. Can see wireless connections, can't connect.

02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

[grahamt (grahamtooley)]

I had this bug, and I've resolved it (at least for me).

I'm using Kubuntu Intrepid with Proposed updates on a Acer Travelmate 520 with a Linksys Broadcom bcm43 PCMCIA wireless card.

This setup worked fine under Hardy, but I suffered from this bug after upgrade to Intrepid.

A comment above suggested I use nm-applet as a workaround replacement for knetworkmanager.

In order to avoid I conflict, I thought it best to apt-get remove knetworkmanager prior to installing nm-applet. But apt-get reported that knetworkmanger was _NOT_ installed (!?).

So I ran 'apt-get install knetworkmanager' which apt-get reported as installing normally, rebooted, and now it's connecting working fine...

[Chekio (atsergio)]

Yo solucione el bug:

Visite la web de mi ISP y alli tenia tb la clave de acceso wifi en forma hexadecimal. Edite la conexion y puse la constraseña en formato hexadecimal y por fin fue¡¡¡

I resolved this bug:

I went to ISP web, and there I take a hexadecimal access. I use this code to enter in my wifi conexions. Its done¡¡

[jacoor (jacek-jacoor)]

Grahamt method worked for me too. I installed KnetworkManager today again (removing WICD at the same time) and now when I suspend to ram and change networks it works fine.
If something breakes I let you know.

Thanks Grahamt.

[naught101 (naught101)]

grahamt: the knetworkmanager in the intrepid repos is a dummy package - it doesn't do anything by itself, it just depends on netowrk-manager-kde (which is knetworkmanager renamed). If you installed from a CD, knetworkmanager shouldn't be installed, and installing it won't change anything (unless network-manager-kde also wasn't installed). If you upgraded, the Hardy knetworkmanager is replaced with the dummy package, which requests that network-manager-kde is installed.

In otherwords, if you already had the knetworkmanager program running, then installing the knetworkmanager doesn't make a difference.

The only reason that might have fixed your problem, that I can think of, is that network-manager-kde was somehow reconfigured at the same time, however, I tried "sudo dpkg-reconfigure network-manager-kde" and it didn't fix anything for me.

[naught101 (naught101)]

changing this back, since I'm using 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1 and it's still not working...

[naught101 (naught101)]

nominating for jaunty since network-manager-kde is the same version in both, as is network-manager.

[naught101 (naught101)]

just checked out and compiled from svn from instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager#Download

Checked out revision 887865.

No joy.

[naught101 (naught101)]

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406635

same bug for OpenSUSE.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Your bug is entirely different than this API change bug. They just happen to have the same symptom, non-working wireless.

[naught101 (naught101)]

Jonathan: There is no info in the bug to indicate it's an API problem. Perhaps the details should be edited to suit, and I can open a new bug.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/259278/comments/6
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/259278/comments/9
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/259278/comments/20
and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/259278/comments/48

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:45:50PM -0000, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/259278/comments/6
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/259278/comments/9
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/259278/comments/20
> and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/259278/comments/48
>

Jonathan, consider to change the bug title to something more specific
than "will not connect". otherwise folks will reopen this bug in two
years still ;) ....

Thanks!

 - Alexander

[mrvanes (mrvanes)]

This problem is still present in Jaunty, network-manager-kde 0.7svn864988-0ubuntu8. nm-applet works fine.

[Jose Bernardo (bernardo-bandos)]

Yes, this one is back in jaunty. But wireless in jaunty seems pretty bad right now. On my aspire one, besides knetwork manager no longer working (again) ath5k drivers will keep roaming away from the AP when there is more than one AP with the same SSID, and since cfg80211 has been updated and no longer supports "ieee80211_regdom" and "iw reg set" doesn't work yet, you're now stuck to channels 1-11 instead of 1-13.

[WarrenTurkal (wturkal)]

Are you using knetworkmanger? I believe the KDE 4.2 includes a plasma
applet for interacting with network manager. Try adding an applet and
seeing if you can find a network manager related one. Please keep in
mind that I am not running Jaunty and don't know if it includes this
functionality.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Jose Bernardo <email address hidden> wrote:
> Yes, this one is back in jaunty. But wireless in jaunty seems pretty bad
> right now. On my aspire one, besides knetwork manager no longer working
> (again) ath5k drivers will keep roaming away from the AP when there is
> more than one AP with the same SSID, and since cfg80211 has been updated
> and no longer supports "ieee80211_regdom" and "iw reg set" doesn't work
> yet, you're now stuck to channels 1-11 instead of 1-13.
>
> --
> knetworkmanager will no longer connect
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259278
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

[mrvanes (mrvanes)]

Yes, Jaunty has quite usable plasma-widget-network-manager some time now. I tried it a couple of weeks ago but wasn't impressed. It's actually usable now and fixes the problems with knetworkmanager most importantly!

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

I've been running the network-manager plasmoid for about a week. I've found the following results:
1. WEP networks seem to work fine, whether they are DHCP or static-IP. I still need a few tests on the static IP, but it *appears* to be working.
2. LEAP and PEAP networks do NOT work at all. I've had ZERO success in these.
These results are the same as for knetworkmanager for me.

In all cases, nm-applet works fine, so the problem is clearly with the front-end (the plasmoid or knetworkmanager)

[TGM (tommann.home)]

Just today (8.30 GMT) I reinstalled Kubuntu Jaunty Alpha 4, and dist-upgraded to the current state.
The network manager plasmoid still shows a greyed out wlan0 with an enable switch, which will not turn on.

Am I missing something? - some people seem to have more luck than me.

I have tried "sudo iwlist wlan0 scan" and can see my access point, on WPA2 encryption. Can't quite figure how to bring it up manually.

[mrvanes (mrvanes)]

This might be related to a rf-kill switch bug in iwl3945. It should work if you start with rf-kill disabled (ie wireless enabled).

[Jose Bernardo (bernardo-bandos)]

Try adding "blacklist acer-wmi" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, might fix the issue.

[TGM (tommann.home)]

Jose,

Blacklisting acer_wmi worked brilliantly, thanks :)
Can confirm as today my wireless (WPA2) connects.

[DaveQB (david-dward)]

I can confirm mrvanes comment

>This problem is still present in Jaunty, network-manager-kde 0.7svn864988-0ubuntu8. nm-applet works fine.

Trying with a Virgin Mobile Huawei E169 [detecting as a E620]

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"

ii network-manager 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu network management framework daemon
ii network-manager-gnome 0.7.1~rc4.1-0ubuntu2 network management framework (GNOME frontend)
ii network-manager-kde 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu8 KDE systray applet for controlling NetworkManager

[Iñaki Baz Castillo (ibc-aliax)]

kubuntu jaunty 64 bits with KDE 4.3.2.

I had a WiFi router with no WPA/WEP security, just MAC access, and it worked perfectly for me with knetworkmanager v0.9.

I've changed my router but configured it in a similar way (MAC access and no more security). Now knetworkmanager doesn't connect to it, but of course it still can connect to the previous WiFi (the old router).

However if I use Gnome's nm-applet I can connect to the new WiFi.

ii network-manager 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2
ii network-manager-gnome 0.7.1~rc4.1-0ubuntu2
rc network-manager-kde 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu8
ii plasma-widget-network-manager 0.9~svn1029786-0ubuntu2.1~jaunty1

Note that I've installed plasma-widget-network-manager and not network-manager-kde.

[Iñaki Baz Castillo (ibc-aliax)]

In fact, if I install network-manager-kde it can connect to the new WiFi.

[Iñaki Baz Castillo (ibc-aliax)]

And after it, I've reinstalled plasma-widget-network-manager again and now it works ¿?¿?

[TGM (tommann.home)]

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[TGM (tommann.home)]

Today my email account was broken into and I have evidence of someone
spamming. you should ignore any previous emails from me today.

Tom

[TGM (tommann.home)]

Apologies. I've had my email hacked. Please remove the above.

[TGM (tommann.home)]

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[TGM (tommann.home)]

Apologies again... This works for me so I'll unsubscribe.