The line "Enable wireless" disappears when unticked

[zsolt.ruszinyák]

This is unpleasant, because the only way of turning wireless back on is to go to the network settings and disable the airplane mode. Not everyone whows that there is a keyboard shortcut for this too...

Solution: the line "Enable wireless" should't disappear and one should be able to reenable wireless form the nm-applet window

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.2.0+git.20120126t000800.5151959-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic-pae 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.307
Date: Thu Mar 15 19:38:52 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-applet
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 default via 158.195.250.1 dev wlan0 proto static
 158.195.250.0/23 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 158.195.251.222 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120313)
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XsessionErrors:
 GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple: assertion `dest_width > 0' failed
 LIBDBUSMENU-GTK-CRITICAL **: dbusmenu_menuitem_property_set_shortcut: assertion `gtk_accelerator_valid(key, modifier)' failed
 GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed
 GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_get_uint: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_UINT (value)' failed
nmcli-con:
 NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH
 Wired connection 1 865dea54-cad2-4176-8009-b88c7150f4b7 802-3-ethernet 1331826984 Thu 15 Mar 2012 04:56:24 PM CET yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1
 eduroam 3da0bac2-ab8f-4359-80cf-213c1635d5b3 802-11-wireless 1331836070 Thu 15 Mar 2012 07:27:50 PM CET yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2
 eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.3.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Indeed, it's not supposed to disappear. I think you're hitting bug 956349. Just to be sure, could you paste here the output for the nm-tool command?

[zsolt.ruszinyák (zsolt-ruszinyak)]

the output:

zsolt@zsolt-1000H:~$ nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected (global)

- Device: eth0 -----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type: Wired
  Driver: ATL1E
  State: unavailable
  Default: no
  HW Address: 00:23:54:09:D2:FE

  Capabilities:
    Carrier Detect: yes

  Wired Properties
    Carrier: off

- Device: wlan0 [eduroam] -----------------------------------------------------
  Type: 802.11 WiFi
  Driver: rt2800pci
  State: connected
  Default: yes
  HW Address: 00:22:43:14:64:C7

  Capabilities:
    Speed: 54 Mb/s

  Wireless Properties
    WEP Encryption: yes
    WPA Encryption: yes
    WPA2 Encryption: yes

  Wireless Access Points (* = current AP)
    MVX-PC_Network: Infra, 00:16:0A:1D:12:48, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 30 WPA2
    NASA network: Infra, 00:27:19:C0:D2:C6, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 30 WPA2
    Ladies: Infra, 14:DA:E9:7B:3F:F8, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 34 WPA2
    SPrivateNet: Infra, 00:1F:C6:52:FC:0C, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 30 WPA
    ASUS: Infra, 14:DA:E9:7B:15:24, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 30 WPA WPA2
    KM: Infra, F4:C7:14:09:4F:64, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 37 WPA2
    *eduroam: Infra, 00:23:04:2F:70:C0, Freq 2442 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 51 WPA2 Enterprise

  IPv4 Settings:
    Address: 158.195.251.222
    Prefix: 23 (255.255.254.0)
    Gateway: 158.195.250.1

    DNS: 158.195.2.2
    DNS: 158.195.2.6

  IPv6 Settings:
    Address: 2002:9ec3:fb8a:d:222:43ff:fe14:64c7
    Prefix: 64
    Gateway: fe80::606d:c685:a6c:1424

    Address: fec0::d:222:43ff:fe14:64c7
    Prefix: 64
    Gateway: fe80::606d:c685:a6c:1424

    Address: fe80::222:43ff:fe14:64c7
    Prefix: 64
    Gateway: fe80::606d:c685:a6c:1424

zsolt@zsolt-1000H:~$

[zsolt.ruszinyák (zsolt-ruszinyak)]

and by the way, Ubuntu 11.10 does the same thing here, but it is still an issue in 12.04 beta 1

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Please make sure your system is as up-to-date as possible. I think we should already have covered most cases of this happening.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Can you confirm whether you can still reproduce this issue?

[Bastian Schmidt (bastian-schmidt)]

I can confirm this bug. After unticking "Enable Wireless", the line "Enable Wireless" in the network-manager indicator menu disappears.
I can use "nmcli nm wifi on" from a terminal to re-enable it, as well as the keyboard shortcut "Fn+F2".

Observed in current beta of 12.04.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Bastian, if your system is fully up to date, then please file a new bug report the moment you reproduce the issue. Make sure you file the bug using "ubuntu-bug network-manager".

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[zsolt.ruszinyák (zsolt-ruszinyak)]

Nothing has changed so far...

So, the problem is:
1. switching off wireless is a one-step procedure, but switching it back on is a two-step one.
2. when switching it off, the line "Enable wireless" disappears giving no obvious way how to turn it back on. A normal user would be LOST!

Still not enough reasons for fixing it?