[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527850: Bug#527850: network-manager: Upgrade to 0.7.1-1 broke wireless connectivity

[Michael Biebl]

vittorio wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.6-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Earlier today, update-manager offered to upgrade network-manager and 
> other 5 related packages to version 0.7.1-1, which I gladly accepted.
> 
> At the end of the upgrade, an error message was displayed sayng that 
> network-manager applet couldn't find some important resources.
> 
> Tried to resuscitate (restart) network interfaces and network-manager 
> itself to no joy. Modprobed ath5k a few times with no errors. Rebooted 
> just to be sure, still no wireless connectivity.
> 
> Had to revert to cable ethernet. Brought back network-manager and 
> related packages to version 0.6.6 and everithing works fine now.
> 
> Something very wrong seems to be happening to wireless with latest 
> network-manager in testing.
> 

Also make sure to read README.Debian, especially with regard to
managed/unmanaged modes.

Cheers,
Michael


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