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

[Gennady N. Uraltsev]

This is the output of ck-list-sessions:


Session6:
         unix-user = '1000'
         realname = 'Gennady N. Uraltsev'
         seat = 'Seat1'
         session-type = ''
         active = TRUE
         x11-display = ':0'
         x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
         display-device = ''
         remote-host-name = ''
         is-local = TRUE
         on-since = '2012-04-06T12:42:41.925371Z'
         login-session-id = ''



On 04/06/2012 02:20 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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?
>
>