[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#443993: network-manager: Fails to realise wireless network is connected

[James Healy]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-1
Severity: important


Since upgrading network manager to 0.6.5-1, the gnome applet fails to
recognise the wireless network is connected on boot.  Because it doesn't
realise the connection is active, it never requests a DHCP address.

The little wireless light indicates that the laptop is associated with
the AP, and iwconfig confirms this, but the n-m applet has the spinning
logo that indicates it's trying to associate.

Running "ifup wlan0" will cause the laptop to grab an address and I can
use the network as expected, but n-m never realises the connection is
active.

Sometimes if I manually tell the laptop to disassociate (by using iwconfig
to change the ssid to something that doesn't exist) then n-m will manage
to reconnect to the original AP and then start the DHCP process.

The AP is unencrypted and uses MAC address locking.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-jh (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.105        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                      3.0-1        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                         0.5.9.1-5    Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.8        high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                     20070313-1   Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping              3:20070202-2 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.74-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.4-2      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.1-3     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0               1.4-2        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                     0.5.9.1-5    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                     29~pre22-1   Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1-pre6                 1.0~pre6-5   Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                 0.6.5-1      network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-24       Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.0-3      Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.5-2    network management framework (GNOM

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