[Feisty]Update breaks wireless capabilities of network manager

[der_vegi]

the latest (april 12th) update of network-manager to 0.6.4-6ubuntu6 breaks mir wireless: network manager doesn't even show that there is a wireless card any more. i can only see the wired network card.

i'm using ubuntu daily 20070409.1 on an amd64 machine with ndiswrapper.

[der_vegi (m-may)]

even when i am connected to the wired network, i can't ping anything. i have to do manually "ifdown eth1" (eth1 = wireless) and then network works. but still (right now for example) network-manager shows "no connection", though wired network is selected and dhcp has done everything automatically.

[Mr Squiddy (pthompson66)]

Numerous instances of this bug have been reported on UbuntuForums.org. Several workarounds have been suggested (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=407204).

[der_vegi (m-may)]

the new update of network-manager to 0.6.4.-6ubuntu7 doesn't improve the situation.

[probos (probostide)]

I've got it working now. Do not configure your connection manually or it won't appear at KNetworkManager

[der_vegi (m-may)]

well, that's one possibility.

for me configuring the connection and wpa_supplicant manually works fine. still doesn't appear in gnome-network-manager, though.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

If you configure the network card manually, then n-m does not manage it any more and should not touch its configuration.

[Amazing Iceman (iceman-arenas)]

I would imagine that as its name says: "NetworkManager", it should "MANAGE" all network interfaces and their configuration, regardless how they are configured (static or DHCP).

Otherwise, n-m is pointless, lacks consistency and it becomes confusing new users.

Let's not give them reasons to complain, specially to those switching from Windows.