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

[Michael Biebl]

On 17.11.2011 04:22, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sounds like a kernel/driver bug.


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