indicator-network show wifi disabled on a bootstrap install or ota update on 31
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre |
Bug Description
Indicator network shows wifi disabled on a fresh bootstrapped install or on an ota update.
Enabling the wifi will aloow it to search and connect to a new network.
On reboot wifi is disabled again on manta and flo but not on mako by the look of it.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: network-manager 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu10
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-mako armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.14.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: armhf
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iw'
Date: Thu May 15 15:38:10 2014
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Include files from /etc/network/
source-directory /etc/network/
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-15 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch) - armhf (20140515.1)
IpRoute:
default via 10.86.112.74 dev rmnet_usb0 proto static
10.86.112.0/24 dev rmnet_usb0 proto kernel scope link src 10.86.112.73 metric 13
NetworkManager.
[main]
NetworkingEnab
WirelessEnable
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
PciNetwork:
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile.
nmcli-con:
NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH
/2343084032239
/2343084032239
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
/ril_0 gsm connected /org/freedeskto
wlan0 802-11-wireless disconnected /org/freedeskto
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Just to be clear, we've had discussions about whether or not Wi-Fi should be enabled by default on a bootstrap install.
My opinion on this is that it should *not* be enabled by default as without user intervention, it's not going to automatically connect anyways and thus will just chew up battery. Also, if Wi-Fi is enabled, but not connected to an AP, there's no indication of this on the status bar, so a user will be unaware of this unless they open up the indicator network-menu ( see bug #1287210 ).
That said, if Wi-Fi was enabled and an update caused it to become disabled, that's certainly a bug.
Finally, I realize having Wi-Fi enabled after a device flash is useful for testing. We discussed enhancing 'phablet-network' to have the smarts to be able to enable Wi-Fi when provisioning a device which would solve the testing issue in theory.