NetworkManager menu items have no effect when selected
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The NetworkManager menu items have no effect when selected.
1. wired connection works.
2. __known__ wireless connections work.
3. __unknown__ wireless connections do __NOT__ work because they require that I select the connection I want from the menu and there is no effect from selecting menu items.
Specifically, when I click on the NM menu in the top menu bar (between bluetooth and sound volume), I see the usual items
(wired network/
when I plug in a wired connection, I become connected to the internet and this is reflected in the menu too.
however, nothing I do with the menu has any effect: I cannot disable/enable wireless/
The only thing I can do it kill the NM process which is then auto-restarted.
I tried reinstalling all the network-manager-* packages to no effect.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 21 23:39:46 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.105 metric 1
NetworkManager.
[main]
NetworkingEnab
WirelessEnable
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (173 days ago)
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
wlan0 802-11-wireless disconnected /org/freedeskto
eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedeskto
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Similar to bug #779754. Does it happen after sleep/suspend?