[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#623467: Bug#623467: network-manager: Networkmanager 0.8.1-6+squeeze1 fails to manage wireless networks (Network is disabled)

[Michael Biebl]

Am 20.04.2011 16:28, schrieb Jonathan Protzenko:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.8.3.999-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: squeeze
> 
> After an upgrade, Network Manager is now unable to handle my wireless network.
> It displays "Wireless is disabled". Downgrading to the version from stable
> fixes the issue. The following sequence of commands works:
> - sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
> - sudo iwlist scanning
> And the list of networks appears, which makes me think that the problem comes
> from NetworkManager.
> 
> I initially thought this was #544217 but I just upgraded my BIOS and all my
> packages are up-to-date (I'm running testing). Plus, #544217 is kinda old and
> rfkill is reporting correct values (i.e not blocked). I read in some other bug
> report that changing the value of managed= in /etc/NetworkManager/ would fix
> the issue, but it didn't help either.
> 
> I can investigate more if you tell me what you'd like to see. In the meanwhile,
> I'm going to downgrade again :-).
> 

Which frontend are you using: nm-applet (GNOME) or the network-manager-kde resp.
the plasma widget?

What are the contents of /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state?

Does it help if you stop NetworkManager, remove the file (after making a backup
of it), and starting NM again?

Michael


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