No wireless connection until you log-in the system

[Squil]

I don't know if i must write this here... the problem is with kubuntu feisty, i don't know if it occurs with ubuntu.

Always when i power on my laptop it connect inmediately to the wireless connection i configured in /etc/network/interface but actually if you don't log in the system and run knetworkmanager, the wireless connection is broken. So i can't connect remotely to my laptop if i don't login to kde

If this problem should be in other webpage please say me where
Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 20 00:45:51 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux optrica 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 18 03:07:14 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

Could you please attach the content of /etc/network/interface and tell us if your Wifi network uses WEP/WPA/... ?

[Squil (soy)]

Hi, i have read the message i sent the other day and i have seen that i didn't say that i install kubuntu feisty with the cdrom of feisty herd 5 that day.
My wireless network is without encrypt and it doesn't broadcast its essid, and it has dhcp.

I was trying other things today:

i have installed ubuntu feisty and it fails with the same problem. When the system is up, with gdm waiting for the login, i go to a console with ctrl+alt+F2 and i tried doing ping to my router (192.168.1.1) but network was unreachable, iwconfig said that i wasn't associated to any essid. If I access to gnome desktop and networkmanager switch on, i have network

The other thing i made: I tried to install ubuntu feisty only with command line, and then it command line can connect with the network always and i tried to install only some programs that appear in the list when you execute apt-get install ubuntu-desktop trying to install only some programs (I haven't the list of packages i installed, sorry) with those programs all failed again.

I could reinstall system if it could help you to know what package is having the problem...

[Martijn vdS (martijn)]

This is a known problem. I have the same with my NetworkManager setup: the network comes up AFTER logging in (because only then the applet starts, and asks for the WPA key)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This does not look related to network-manager at all, since this interface is not managed by it (it has custom options). Thus this rather belongs to ifupdown. However, this ignoring was broken for a few days. Can you please try the following:

  * Update Feisty to the very latest packages and check that you still have this problem.
  * If so, please do:

     sudo mv /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager /root

   and boot again. This disables network-manager, so we can ensure that it is not the culprit. Please check if it still happens.

Please do

  sudo mv /root/25NetworkManager /etc/dbus-1/event.d/

afterwards to re-enable network-manager.

[Squil (soy)]

Hi, I have installed ubuntu feisty again and i have updated it. Now all go ok i haven't to do any more. With install and update the system it works ok

So you have repaired the problem

Good job

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks for checking again! Closing.