[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#607054: network-manager: prevents connecting to wireless network setup with ifupdown, even though managed=false

[Joris Mooij]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.1-5
Severity: normal

My /etc/network/interfaces contains:

---
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

# noauto dsl-provider
# iface dsl-provider inet ppp
# pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
# provider dsl-provider

noauto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
# home:
        wpa-ssid secret
        wpa-psk secret
---

My /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf contains:

---
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false
---

I would expect this to mean that Network-Manager would not touch my wlan0
interface. Nevertheless, if I run "ifup wlan0", then I can get no connection to
the network. This is an excerpt of my dmesg, which shows that a connection is
made and then immediately dropped again, for some reason (=3?):

---
...
[ 1731.906364] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (try 1)
[ 1731.910610] wlan0: direct probe responded
[ 1731.910615] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (try 1)
[ 1731.912392] wlan0: authenticated
[ 1731.912422] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (try 1)
[ 1731.914800] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (capab=0x431 status=0
aid=1)
[ 1731.914804] wlan0: associated
[ 1731.933181] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 by local choice
(reason=3)
[ 1732.033769] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (try 1)
[ 1732.038053] wlan0: direct probe responded
[ 1732.038058] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (try 1)
[ 1732.039768] wlan0: authenticated
[ 1732.039798] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (try 1)
[ 1732.042130] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (capab=0x431 status=0
aid=1)
[ 1732.042133] wlan0: associated
[ 1732.057074] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 by local choice
(reason=3)
[ 1732.157765] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (try 1)
[ 1732.162063] wlan0: direct probe responded
[ 1732.162067] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (try 1)
[ 1732.163835] wlan0: authenticated
[ 1732.163860] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (try 1)
[ 1732.166188] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 (capab=0x431 status=0
aid=1)
[ 1732.166193] wlan0: associated
[ 1732.180532] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:1e:2a:76:93:24 by local choice
(reason=3)
...
---

If I kill network-manager, then I can connect to the network without any
problems. So for some reason, the "managed=false" option does not work. Since
network-manager is started by default, this is pretty annoying.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.112+nmu2  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.2.24-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.1.1-P1-15 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-7    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.24-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.88-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.4.5-2     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.24.2-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                  2.8.6-1     the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0               164-2       GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                       1.1-6       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                  0.8.1-5     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                  0.8.1-5     network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.96-4      PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                     2.17.2-3.3  Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23.1    Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                         164-2       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                0.6.10-2.1  client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dns 2.55-2                               A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  ipt 1.4.8-3                              administration tools for packet fi
ii  mod 0.4+git.20100624t180933.6e79d15-1+b1 D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  pol 0.96-4                               framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp 2.4.5-4                              Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.27-2   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

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