knetworkmanager silently fails to connect to any wireless networks

[Jesse van Herk]

Binary package hint: network-manager-kde

Reproduction steps:

- click on the networkmanager system tray icon
- click on "connect to other network"
- click on any available previously configured wireless network, encypted or otherwise

Expected behaviour:
- GUI should display "connecting...connected" notifications and update icons
- network connection should be configured

Actual behaviour:
- config window closes, no further GUI feedback appears
- network connection is not configured
- 5 seconds after the config window closes, the following message appears in /var/log/syslog:

Aug 25 08:20:32 kenshin NetworkManager: <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/3 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service

Hardware is an acer aspire 5610, network driver is iwl3945, which appears to be loaded successfully.

Version information:

root@kenshin:/var/log# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

root@kenshin:/var/log# lsmod|grep iwl3945
iwl3945 96756 0
mac80211 220532 1 iwl3945
cfg80211 32392 2 iwl3945,mac80211
led_class 12036 2 iwl3945,acer_acpi

root@kenshin:/var/log# apt-cache policy linux-restricted-modules-2.6.26-5-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.26-5-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.26-5.12
  Candidate: 2.6.26-5.12
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.26-5.12 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

root@kenshin:/var/log# apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

root@kenshin:/var/log# apt-cache policy network-manager-kde
network-manager-kde:
  Installed: 1:0.7svn830754-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:0.7svn830754-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.7svn830754-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Jesse van Herk (jesse-imaginaryrobots)]

Further information: plugging into a wired ethernet connection works perfectly, with icon updates, notifications, and successfuly network connection.

[Lapin (fred-lacombe)]

I confirm the behaviour, same configuration (kernel, network-manager, network-manager-kde) :
- works fine when plugged to a wired network
- timeout for wifi :
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

it happens since network-manager / network-manager-kdelast update (~ 20/21 august 2008)

regards

[Lapin (fred-lacombe)]

I confirm the behaviour, same configuration (kernel, network-manager, network-manager-kde, iwl3945 module) :
- works fine when plugged to a wired network
- timeout for wifi :
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

it happens since network-manager / network-manager-kdelast update (~ 20/21 august 2008)

regards

[djmaze (maze)]

Same problem here since installing Intrepid. With the new iwlagn module, that is (5300 model).

Killing dbus and manually configuring wpa_supplicant does the job. So it is a NetworkManager problem, I suppose.