[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#667729: network-manager-gnome: Protected wireless networks are greyed out. Unable to connect through applet.

[Gennady N. Uraltsev]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.4.1-1
Severity: important

When clicking on the nm applet the wireless networks whose signal is present
are presented in a list but all the entries for protected networks are greyed
out and thus unclickable. The only way I found to connect to a protected
network is to manually go to  "Edit Connections" and add a wireless connection
with the correct SSID and password. This does NOT make the list entry
clickable, no matter what settings one chooses for the option "make available
to all users". Finally, after setting up a connection this way, from root I do:

/etc/init.d/network-manager restart

then the network-manager restarts and by default connects to the wireless
network. However this is a very dirty workaround and because of this network-
manager is essentially unusable for managing wireless networks.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11             1.5.12-1
ii  dpkg                 1.16.2
ii  gconf-service        3.2.3-4
ii  gconf2               3.2.3-4
ii  gnome-icon-theme     3.4.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                2.13-27
ii  libcairo-gobject2    1.12.0-2
ii  libcairo2            1.12.0-2
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.5.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.8.0-3.1
ii  libfreetype6         2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf-2-4         3.2.3-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.26.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.32.0-3
ii  libgnome-bluetooth8  3.2.2-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.4.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.2.3-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1      0.9.4.0-3
ii  libnm-glib4          0.9.4.0-3
ii  libnm-gtk0           0.9.4.1-1
ii  libnm-util2          0.9.4.0-3
ii  libnotify4           0.7.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.30.0-1
ii  network-manager      0.9.4.0-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome    0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-bluetooth                        3.2.2-1
ii  iso-codes                              3.34-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam-keyring]  3.2.2-2
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info         20120402-1
ii  notification-daemon                    0.7.4-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]    0.2.2-1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome  0.9.4.0-1
ii  network-manager-pptp-gnome     0.9.4.0-2
ii  network-manager-vpnc-gnome     0.9.4.0-1

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