[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#720659: Bug#720659: network-manager disturbes wpasupplicant (i386 only)

[Michael Biebl]

Am 24.08.2013 13:31, schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.9.8.0-5
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> I hope, this bug is not mentioned somewhere else.
> 
> The problem:
> I changed from wicd to network-manager, as wicd is no more further developed.
> As network-manager is telling in its documentation, it can also use /etc/network/interfaces, for this is what I prefer. I do not always use/need a windowmanager.
> 
> But it appears, that the wireless interface cannot be configured during boot, when network-manager is installed. When I am starting my windowmanager (in my case it is KDE with plasma-network-widget-kde installed) network-manager does not show the wlan interface.
> 

I assume two wpasupplicant instances are started, one by
network-manager, the other by ifupdown. Correct?

ifupdown should probably be fixed to start wpasupplicant in "D-Bus
mode", then network-manager can just use the running instance.

I don't think there is a simple solution for this or a solution at all,
for such mixed cases.
You can try to explicitly ignore the wlan interface, then NM shouldn't
start wpasupplicant.

For that you can add the following section to
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=mac:11:22:33:44:55:66

(of course, replace that with the MAC address of your wlan0 interface)


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