[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#525181: Bug#525181: Bug#525181: network-manager: simply doesn't work for WLAN

Adrian von Bidder avbidder at fortytwo.ch
Sat Apr 25 10:26:29 UTC 2009


Heyho!

(Only saw your mail after I wrote the other one this morning...)

On Friday 24 April 2009 16.07:35 Michael Biebl wrote:
> Ok, could you then please comment out all interface configurations in
> /e/n/i (besides lo),
> kill nm-system-settings and NetworkManager, start "NetworkManager
> --no-daemon" and preferably also use network-manager-gnome (nm-applet),
> as I have no idea how mature the KDE4 applet is already.
> Please attach the output of "NetworkManager --no-daemon" then.

+++++
~# ifdown wlan0
~# vim ...
~# grep ^[^#] /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
~# NetworkManager --no-daemon
NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
/sbin/ifup: interface lo already configured
NetworkManager: <info>  Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_acer_wmi_rfkill_acer_wireless_wlan
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169')
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1e_68_cd_7b_3f
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath5k')
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_22_69_77_40_84
NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the system settings daemon...
NetworkManager: <info>  Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch

 ---> note the message about killswitch.  There is a killswitch on this 
 ---> notebook, and it used to work.  Will test this next.

NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): bringing up device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): bringing up device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).

 ---> at this point: starting nm-applet now.

+++++

A dialog pops up:

The NetworkManager applet could not find some required resources.  It 
cannot continue.

And in the terminal:

** (nm-applet:5724): WARNING **: Icon nm-no-connection missing: Icon 
'nm-no-connection' not present in theme

Hmmm.  The icon is present in the hicolor icon theme.  How do I tell it 
to use them?  Is there no CLI for nm?

Ok, while I'm still offline, restarting the KDE4 widget.

No further output on the NetworkManager terminal, but .xsession-error has:

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plasma(3244) NetworkManagerApplet::NetworkManagerApplet: 165             
kded(3200) KNetworkManagerService::KNetworkManagerService: registered "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings"                                              
kded(3200) NetworkSettings::NetworkSettings: Registered settings object  /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings                                                
kded(3200) KNetworkManagerServicePrefs::instance: KNetworkManagerServicePrefs::instance called after the first use - ignoring                                   
kded(3200) KDEDModule::setModuleName: Registration of kded module  "knetworkmanager" without dbus interface.                                                    
kded(3200) KDEDModule::setModuleName: registerObject() returned false for  "knetworkmanager"                                                                    
kded(3200) KConfigToService::start:                                             
kded(3200) KConfigToService::restoreConnection: "{c1b0fa4c-1274-40c6-9884-9114db297b5d}"                                                                        
kded(3200): ""timestamp" - conversion of "1240241847" to QDateTime failed" " (wrong format: expected 6 items, got 1)"                                           
kded(3200) NetworkSettings::addConnection:                                      
kded(3200) NetworkSettings::addConnection: NewConnection "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0"                                                            
kded(3200) KNetworkManagerService::serviceRegistered: service registered        
kded(3200) NetworkSettings::ListConnections: There are  1  known connections    
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerApplet::NetworkManagerApplet: true "" ""             
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerSettings::NetworkManagerSettings: "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" true                                                  
kded(3200) NetworkSettings::ListConnections: There are  1  known connections    
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerSettings::initConnections: "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0"                                                               
plasma(3244) RemoteConnection::RemoteConnection: "802-11-wireless"              
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerSettings::NetworkManagerSettings: "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings" true                                                
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerSettings::initConnections: "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0"                                                               
plasma(3244) RemoteConnection::RemoteConnection: "802-3-ethernet"               
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerApplet::init:                                        
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerApplet::showWired: SHOWING                           
plasma(3244) InterfaceGroup::InterfaceGroup: TYPE 1                             
plasma(3244) InterfaceItem::setNameDisplayMode: Product: "Networking Interface" 
plasma(3244) InterfaceItem::activeConnectionsChanged: "eth0" Interface has no active connections                                                                
plasma(3244) InterfaceItem::setEnabled: false                                   
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: RemoteConnection(0xa649158)      
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: 2                                
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: Solid::Control::WiredNetworkInterface(0xa64e870)                                                                 
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: false                            
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: RemoteConnection(0xa6382a0)      
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: 1                                
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: Solid::Control::WiredNetworkInterface(0xa64e870)                                                                 
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: false                            
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerApplet::showWireless: SHOWING                        
plasma(3244) InterfaceGroup::InterfaceGroup: TYPE 2                             
plasma(3244) InterfaceItem::setNameDisplayMode: Product: "WLAN Interface"       
plasma(3244) InterfaceItem::activeConnectionsChanged: "wlan0" Interface has no active connections                                                               
plasma(3244) WirelessInterfaceItem::activeAccessPointChanged: AP changed: "/"   
plasma(3244) WirelessInterfaceItem::setEnabled: false                           
plasma(3244) InterfaceItem::setEnabled: false
plasma(3244) InterfaceGroup::addInterfaceInternal: WiFi added
plasma(3244) WirelessInterfaceItem::setEnabled: false
plasma(3244) InterfaceItem::setEnabled: false
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerApplet::showVpn: SHOWING
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerApplet::showGeneral: Displaying general extender
plasma(3244) GeneralExtender::graphicsWidget: widget is there, shortcutting
kded(3200) NetworkSettings::ListConnections: There are  1  known connections
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerSettings::initConnections: "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0"
plasma(3244) NetworkManagerSettings::initConnections: Service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" is reporting the same connection 
more than once in ListConnections!
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: RemoteConnection(0xa649158)
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: 2
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: Solid::Control::WiredNetworkInterface(0xa64e870)
plasma(3244) WiredConnectionInspector::accept: false
+++++

And I'm exactly where I started.

loading/unloading acer_wmi doesn't make a difference.  (Haven't tested 
booting without that.  Will, later.)  The WLAN switch works in either 
case.  (And was always switched to on.)

A quick search with google didn't turn up anything that worked about the 
nm-applet icon problem (a CLI would really be helpful for debugging :-) 
so this is as much data as I can give right now...

(And thanks for trying to look into this, in any case!)

cheers
-- vbi

-- 
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