[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#667432: networkmanager detects wifi access point only after running iwlist

[Hans Linkels]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.2.0-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When I need to connect to my wifi network, my access point is not 
detected. This happens in the following situations:
- when I try to create a new wifi connection, using the knetworkmanager 
front-end
- when the connection exists, but after a reboot
- when the connection exists, after waking up from hibernate

My SSID is 'khome'. When I run nmcli dev wifi, it is not seen.

When I run iwlist wlan0 scan, the access point DOES show up.

Now it is also recognized in network-manager.
I can create a new connection.
When the connection was already defined, it connects immediately.

This is the output from nmcli the first time:
root at jlinkels-lt:/home/jlinkels# nmcli dev wifi
SSID                              BSSID               MODE             
FREQ       RATE       SIGNAL   SECURITY   ACTIVE
'caribinn'                        00:1A:70:7F:00:20   Infrastructure   
2412 MHz   54 MB/s    25       --         no
'VillaFleur1'                     00:21:29:E1:0C:BE   Infrastructure   
2452 MHz   54 MB/s    30       --         no
'sonos'                           68:7F:74:F1:87:61   Infrastructure   
2437 MHz   54 MB/s    25       WPA        no

My own access point 'khome' is not shown.

Then I run iwlist: (irrelevant pieces cut out)
root at jlinkels-lt:/home/jlinkels# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
           Cell 01 - Address: 00:1A:70:7F:00:20
                     Channel:1
                     ESSID:"caribinn"
<snip>

           Cell 02 - Address: 68:7F:74:F1:87:61
                     Channel:6
                     ESSID:"sonos"
<snip>

           Cell 03 - Address: 00:21:29:E1:0C:BE
                     Channel:9
                     ESSID:"VillaFleur1"
<snip>

           Cell 04 - Address: 00:02:2D:60:78:C2
                     Channel:7
                     ESSID:"khome"
<snip>

And now runnin nmcli show my access point and connects immediately
root at jlinkels-lt:/home/jlinkels# nmcli dev wifi
SSID                              BSSID               MODE             
FREQ       RATE       SIGNAL   SECURITY   ACTIVE
'khome'                           00:02:2D:60:78:C2   Infrastructure   
2442 MHz   11 MB/s    100      WEP        no
'caribinn'                        00:1A:70:7F:00:20   Infrastructure   
2412 MHz   54 MB/s    22       --         no
'VillaFleur1'                     00:21:29:E1:0C:BE   Infrastructure   
2452 MHz   54 MB/s    29       --         no
'sonos'                           68:7F:74:F1:87:61   Infrastructure   
2437 MHz   54 MB/s    25       WPA        no
My own access point 'khome' appeared.


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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu1
ii  dbus                   1.4.18-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.1.1-P1-17
ii  libc6                  2.13-27
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.18-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.98-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.30.2-6
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.16-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-3.1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.3-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.3-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.2.0-2
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.2.0-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.104-2
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-1.2
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28.1
ii  udev                   175-3.1
ii  wpasupplicant          0.7.3-6

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.59-4
ii  iptables      1.4.12.2-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5-1
ii  policykit-1   0.104-2
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.30-6

-- no debconf information

Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 0.35