Network Manager fails to connect

[Michael Rocco Sabino]

Binary package hint: network-manager

NetworkManager fails to connect to a hidden ssid using broadcom b43 wireless in jaunty alpha 5. Upgrading alpha 5 to the current daily build causes even non-network manager-initiated connections to wireless to break.

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7.1~rc1+20090220-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7.1~rc3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.7.1~rc3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
 *** 0.7.1~rc1+20090220-0ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Michael Rocco Sabino (m-sabino)]

Temporary workaround (for alpha 5)

-----b43netfix.sh----
echo "Stopping Network Manager. Ctrl+C to abort. Usage: ./net <essid>."
sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop

echo "Line to fix iwconfig, since 4318 sometimes doesn't associate (on my laptop)"
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid UNBORK
echo Sudoing iwconfig wlan0 with essid: $1
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid $1
echo "Bringing interface up and down to associate"
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo dhclient wlan0

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[Michael Rocco Sabino (m-sabino)]

oops the filename should read "net" at the beginning, not b43netfix.sh.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Do you get the same with Karmic? Thanks in advance.

[Michael Rocco Sabino (m-sabino)]

Those problems seem to be gone. I had a few year old Compaq Presario that was having some trouble which I gave away, but more recently my XPS M1530 has begun to work much better in regards to Network Manager in Ubuntu.

Michael Sabino

----- Original Message -----
From: Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009 10:15 am
Subject: [Bug 339716] Network Manager fails to connect
To: <email address hidden>

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there
> hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Do you get the same with Karmic? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Network Manager fails to connect
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339716
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: network-manager
>
> NetworkManager fails to connect to a hidden ssid using broadcom
> b43 wireless in jaunty alpha 5. Upgrading alpha 5 to the current
> daily build causes even non-network manager-initiated
> connections to wireless to break.
>
> Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
> Release: 9.04
>
>
> network-manager:
>   Installed: 0.7.1~rc1+20090220-0ubuntu1
>   Candidate: 0.7.1~rc3-0ubuntu1
>   Version table:
>      0.7.1~rc3-0ubuntu1 0
>         500
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
>  *** 0.7.1~rc1+20090220-0ubuntu1 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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