Gnome NetworkManager Applet 0.6.4 reports "no network connection" (connection is working)

[Rossano Rossi]

When gnome is opened, the NetworkManager Applet 0.6.4 reports "no network connection"
the connection is working though

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Fri Mar 2 10:01:04 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux ubuntu-dt2 2.6.20-9-386 #2 Mon Feb 26 02:58:41 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Chris Wagner (chris-wagner)]

Hi Rossano. Do you think you might be seeing the problem described in bug 82927? (Read through the comments for the bug; the bug description may be mis-leading.)

[Spike1506 (spike1506)]

I have the same problem here, it worked fine before I installed the latest updates.

[Rich Wales (richw)]

I saw this problem when I first installed Feisty in early March. It went away (i.e., NetworkManager started working OK) a little after that, but the problem returned today after I installed the newest batch of updates.

On my system, the network interface (wired, builtin to the motherboard) IS UP, even though the NetworkManager Applet icon falsely claims there is "no network connection".

I'm not sure if this problem is the same as bug 82927. Please note that I am having no problems at all with my network connection -- except that NM is displaying an erroneous indication that my network connection is allegedly down (it's up). And I assume that if I wanted to change my networking parameters right now, I would probably have to edit the configuration files by hand, since NM thinks I don't have a network connection and won't give me the opportunity to adjust any parameters.

[Rich Wales (richw)]

network-admin (System -> Administration -> Network in the main menu) works just fine. So the problem would appear to be only in the NetworkManager applet.

[Rich Wales (richw)]

The problem with the NetworkManager Applet seems to have gone away with the latest batch of updates. If I left-click on the panel icon, I now see an item called "Manual Configuration", which I can click to launch network-admin.