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

[Michael Biebl]

On 06.04.2012 12:08, Gennady N. Uraltsev wrote:

> 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.

What's the output of ck-list-sessions?


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