[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Problem with network-manager and wireless-tools

[Robin Haunschild]

Dear Maintainers of the package network-manager,

first of all thanks for this great applications which used to work fine on my 64 
Bit Intel Core 2 Duo with Debian/testing.

I am (was) using network-manager with KDE 4.3.4. On 02/07/2010 I did an 
upgrade via aptitude safe-upgrade.

The following packages were upgraded:                                                                                         
  devicekit-power empathy empathy-doc libdatetime-timezone-perl libdevkit-
power-gobject1 libempathy-common libempathy-gtk-common 
  libempathy-gtk28 libempathy30 libnm-util1 libpci3 libsqlite3-0 libvoikko1 
liferea liferea-data module-init-tools               
  network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-openvpn network-
manager-vpnc pciutils python-opengl python-reportbug     
  python2.5 python2.5-dev python2.5-minimal reportbug

The following new packages were installed:                                                                                    
  freedesktop-sound-theme{a} gnome-session-canberra{a} libnm-glib-vpn1{a} 
libnm-glib2{a} mobile-broadband-provider-info{a}       
  modemmanager{a}

All packages came from
http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main

After this upgrade network manager stopped to work as usual. It is still 
starts and can detect wireless networks but it can not use them. I can click 
on any network, but nothing happens. Actually, I don't know if the network-
manager package is the cause: If I set the essid of an existing WLAN manually 
(e.g. iwconfig wlan0 essid "Rice Visitor") iwconfig | grep wlan0 looks strange:
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"g\xC6isQ\xFFJ\xEC)\xCD\xBA\xAB\xF2\xFB\xE3F|
\xC2T\xF8\x1B\xE8\xE7\x8DvZ.c3\x9F\xC9\x9A"

Setting an essid of a non-existing network (iwconfig wlan0 essid "TEST") works:
# iwconfig | grep "wlan0"
lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.
pan0      no wireless extensions.
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Test"

When I am out of reach of the WLAN "Rice Visitor" I can also set its essid and 
it is shown properly by iwconfig.

Relevant versions:
wireless-tools: 30~pre9-4
network-manager: 0.7.999-2
network-manager-kde: 1:0.7~~svn941706-2

My sources.list contains the lines:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free

I also tried to reinstall network-manager-kde and network-manager but this did 
not help.

I don't know against which package I should file a bug report.

Thanks for any advice. Best regards,

Robin
-- 
Robin Haunschild
Rice University
  Department of Chemistry
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    6100 Main Street
    Houston, Texas 77005-1892
    USA

phone:  (713) 348-2657
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