Gutsy: wireless access manager that worked has disappeared

It sounds like you have turned of roaming mode for your wireless interface.

If you want the nm-applet to show connection status and provide the drop-down list of networks, you have to go into the interface properties and tick Enable roaming mode.

Okay, I just did that, but the wireless icon and dropdown didn't change. It probably doesn't matter that this is a Toshiba Satellite. As I said, it was working nicely a couple of days ago. Perhaps I'll try to reboot and see if that jerks it back now that I've changed to roaming...

Okay, after rebooting, the dropdown functionality does come back, but I am still left with the old terminal icon rather than the fourstep thing that shows signal strength.

When I try going in and out of roaming mode again I find that this is now working as you might expect, though the dropdown signal strength displays don't come back right away, but they do come back in a minute or so. Still, I have the old double terminal icon, and not the new step icon showing signal strength anymore. If the latter should still be there, it is not, and we still have a bug.

Okay, I found others on the Seattle Linux List who also had this problem. I'll wait still for others to mark this confirmed, but I do have a stop-gap solution which works:

"Alt-F2, nm-applet gets it back..." (from one John Locke on the Seattle Linux List).

Ideally of course this will be counted as a bug and someone will fix it not to go away in the first place.

Hi there
do you still experience this issue with the current version of the application?, could you please try to reproduce this using the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron.

Thanks in advance

No, I no longer have this problem, but I don't really have the opportunity anymore to completely reproduce it. I have seen no symptoms since then, if that helps. Ideally someone should go through the same steps on such an older satellite laptop. I've now given my old Toshiba away to a friend. If I get a chance to try it with her laptop at some point I will post here, but I can no longer completely reproduce the circumstances. My apologies for not getting back to this sooner.

Hi there
Thanks for your time and feedback, I'm closing this report due your last comment about not being able to reproduce this issue anymore, if you ever experience this behavior please file a bug against the new version of the application, since probably doesn't have much to do with this one, taking in consideration this is about an outdated version of the software. Thanks again for taking the time to report this bug and help to make Ubuntu better, please feel free to report any future bugs you might find.