[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#649041: network-manager-gnome: cannot turn on wifi after it has been turned off

[Norbert Preining]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.2.0-1
Severity: important

Hi all,

it seems that something is quite broken in n-m-gnome: First of all there
is the problem that I cannot *disconnect* from a WLAN network without
actually turning of the WLAN with the rfkill mechanism. Clicking on
the "ON - OFF" button in the n-m-g applet actually soft-disables (rfkill)
the device. THis will be a different bug, because this is *mis*behavour.

What I am reporting here is much worse: After having disabled it with
the "ON - OFF" button in nm-applet, I cannot turn it on again. Clicking
on the button again does nothing, and the output of rfkill command
shows that the wlan device is still soft blocked:
$ rfkill list
0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no
...

Now, that is a pain ... what I had to do is call
        rfkill unblock wifi
on the command line to get it running again.

I was considering to file this as serious bug, as it requires very uncommon
and for most users not known action to reactivate networking.

Thanks and all the best

Norbert

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Norbert Preining                preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan                                   TeX Live and Debian Developer
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