NM sometimes disables Wi-Fi interface and the only way to re-enable it is to delete NetworkManager.state and reboot

Bug #583308 reported by Bartłomiej Żogała
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

Problem in most cases is result of. failure in suspend/hibernate. After such knetworkmanager says "network management is disabled", wlan0 interface has txpower set to off, can't change.Problem is in /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state of form:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=false
WWANEnabled=false

if I change manually WirelessEnabled to true and restart network-manager it reverts to false.
Even if I manually stop /etc/init.d/networking and network-manager, kill kdm for a while, change entry after starting network-manager it reverts to false. I must do full reboot after deleting this file to recover wifi in my laptop.

I don't have idea what keeps those settings, but for me it is a bug, reenabling should be as easy as clicking enable in knetworkmanager plasma applet or better autodetect if there was suspend/resume failure to revert those settings during boot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager 0.8-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 20 14:06:33 2010
Gconf:

IpRoute:
 157.158.166.0/23 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 157.158.167.9 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 157.158.167.253 dev wlan0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
WpaSupplicantLog:

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Bartłomiej Żogała (nusch) wrote :
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guymac (guymac-gmail) wrote :

This bug has made my laptop pretty much useless. How is it that something of this severity does not have a super-high priority? WTF?

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guymac (guymac-gmail) wrote :

Somehow the network switch was triggered, or the system thought it was (as shown by rfkill list)... disabling it in the BIOS worked to restore wireless networking.

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Bartłomiej Żogała (nusch) wrote :

Is anybody working on this problem? It's critical to some users. After last updated even stoping network manager, deleting NetworkManager.state and rebooting doesn't help, system keeps settings somewhere else and after reboot sets WirelessEnabled to false again.

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote : Re: [Bug 583308] Re: Network manager wifi interface can't be easily resumed

Bartlomiej,

Please confirm you are indeed getting this bug on kubuntu.

Also, could you please specify which "latest update" you mean has made the
problem worse? If you could run the command 'dpkg -l network-manager
network-manager-kde', we could ascertain which versions are affected.

/ Matt

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote : Re: Network manager wifi interface can't be easily resumed

Compare bug #1017051.

Thomas Hood (jdthood)
summary: - Network manager wifi interface can't be easily resumed
+ NM sometimes disables Wi-Fi interface and the only way to re-enable it
+ is to delete NetworkManager.state and reboot
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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

This has been fixed in later releases, and the fix is available in 12.04.

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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