[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#721595: KDE network manager does not work

[Karsten Malcher]

Package: plasma-widget-networkmanagement
Version: 0.9.0.3-1
Severity: important

Hello,

i am trying desperated to get WLAN working without problems on wheezy.
One time i get a connection, then never again.

I installed the network manager to have a comfortable configuration, but it seems not to have the correct rights to work.
The scanning for hotspots does not work and when i manually create a WLAN connection and try to save it, it fails with 
insufficient privileges (see screenshot).

As you can see here i have access to WLAN functionality on the shell:

root at pc# iwlist wlan2 scan
wlan2     Scan completed :
           Cell 01 - Address: 00:1E:58:BB:80:CD
                     Channel:1
                     Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                     Quality=68/70  Signal level=-42 dBm
                     Encryption key:on
                     ESSID:"dd-wrt"
                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                               9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                     Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                     Mode:Master
                     Extra:tsf=0000000000000000
                     Extra: Last beacon: 32ms ago
                     IE: Unknown: 000664642D777274
                     IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824
                     IE: Unknown: 030101
                     IE: Unknown: 050400010000
                     IE: Unknown: 2A0104
                     IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
                     IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                         Group Cipher : TKIP
                         Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                         Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                     IE: Unknown: DD0900037F01010020FF7F


But automatically it is not configured correct with the WPA key:

root at pc# iwconfig
wlan2     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"dd-wrt"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:1E:58:BB:80:CD
           Tx-Power=200 dBm
           Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off


This is my current network configuration file:

root at pc:/etc/network# cat interfaces
...
allow-hotplug eth6
iface eth6 inet static
...
auto wlan2
iface wlan2 inet dhcp
         wpa-ssid "dd-wrt"
         wpa-psk "mysecretpassword"

Why the network manager has not enough privileges?
Any other idea to solve the problem?

Best regards
Karsten



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
   APT prefers proposed-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages plasma-widget-networkmanagement depends on:
ii  kde-runtime                     4:4.8.4-2
ii  libc6                           2.13-38
ii  libgcc1                         1:4.7.2-5
ii  libkcmutils4                    4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkdecore5                     4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkdeui5                       4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkio5                         4:4.8.4-4
ii  libknotifyconfig4               4:4.8.4-4
ii  libplasma3                      4:4.8.4-4
ii  libqt4-dbus                     4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-network                  4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-svg                      4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-xml                      4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqtcore4                      4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqtgui4                       4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libsolid4                       4:4.8.4-4
ii  libsolidcontrol4abi2            4:4.8.4-6
ii  libstdc++6                      4.7.2-5
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info  20120708-1
ii  network-manager                 0.9.4.0-10

Versions of packages plasma-widget-networkmanagement recommends:
ii  kwalletmanager           4:4.8.4-3
ii  network-manager-openvpn  0.9.4.0-1
ii  network-manager-pptp     0.9.4.0-2
ii  network-manager-vpnc     0.9.4.0-1

Versions of packages plasma-widget-networkmanagement suggests:
pn  kdebase-workspace-bin  <none>

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