network-manager indicator shows disconnected while actually connected

[Mike Doherty]

While I'm connected to a working wireless connection, network-manager shows the disconnected icon in the panel. During the connection process, it cycles through all the right icons.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager 0.8-0ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-33.70-generic 2.6.32.41+drm33.18
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sun Jul 17 14:53:38 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.114 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

Restarting gnome-panel doesn't fix the issue.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

This is a side-effect of the evil Broadcom drivers; marking as a duplicate of bug 539300.

Note, this has been fixed in the Maverick release and later.