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network-manager-applet package

Network manager applet does not display the current connection

Bug #569335 reported by Joshua Lückers on 2010-04-24

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to
	network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned
Nominated for Lucid by Thomas
Nominated for Maverick by Joshua Lückers

Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

network-manager:
  Installed: 0.8-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.8-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
*** 0.8-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What I expect to happen:
When connecting to a wireless network (eth1) the NetworkManager Applet should show that I am connected.

What happens instead:
It says I'm not connected however notifty-osd told me the connection to Wifi was established. Internet works fine afterwards.
See attachment for a screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager 0.8-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat Apr 24 10:14:04 2010
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
IpRoute:
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.102 metric 2
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1000
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager

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Joshua Lückers (joshualuckers) wrote on 2010-04-24:

nmapplet.png Edit (32.1 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Gconf.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (631 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (280 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.eth0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.eth1.txt Edit (1004 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.lo.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.pan0.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (76.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
nm-system-settings.conf.txt Edit (349 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Joshua Lückers (joshualuckers) wrote on 2010-04-24:

Output of nm-tool:
- Device: eth1 [Auto Wifi] ----------------------------------------------------
  Type: 802.11 WiFi
  Driver: wl
  State: connected
  Default: yes
  HW Address: C4:17:FE:5D:5A:6E

Capabilities:
Speed: 1 Mb/s

  Wireless Properties
    WEP Encryption: yes
    WPA Encryption: yes
    WPA2 Encryption: yes

  Wireless Access Points
    Huson: Infra, 00:13:D4:B0:DA:C4, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 20 WEP
    KDP21: Infra, 00:1E:2A:6B:D6:30, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 20 WPA2
    default: Infra, 00:50:18:3D:FA:DE, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 40
    Tica en Jimmy: Infra, 00:23:F8:D7:E5:3F, Freq 2442 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 20 WPA WPA2
    ThomsonCA6BAC: Infra, 00:24:D2:CA:6B:AC, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 40 WPA WPA2
    SpeedTouchDD31EA:Infra, 00:1F:9F:9F:C2:19, Freq 2462 MHz, Rate 0 Mb/s, Strength 40 WPA WPA2
    Wifi: Infra, 00:25:9C:E4:AB:2B, Freq 2442 MHz, Rate 0 Mb/s, Strength 100 WPA2

  IPv4 Settings:
    Address: 192.168.1.102
    Prefix: 24 (255.255.255.0)
    Gateway: 192.168.1.1

DNS: 8.8.8.8
DNS: 8.8.4.4

- Device: eth0 -----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type: Wired
  Driver: r8169
  State: unavailable
  Default: no
  HW Address: 00:26:9E:F9:12:C4

  Capabilities:
    Carrier Detect: yes
    Speed: 10 Mb/s

Wired Properties
Carrier: off

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Draycen DeCator (ddecator) wrote on 2010-04-24:

Since the connection is technically working, this seems more likely to be an issue with the applet, so I'm switching the package to reflect that.

summary:	- network manager does not detect connection + Network manager applet does not display the current connection
affects:	network-manager (Ubuntu) → network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)

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Thomas (t.c) wrote on 2010-05-22:

network-manager-gnome-bug1.jpg Edit (19.6 KiB, image/jpeg)

I am has the same bug.

There is a picture from the problem.. I cant see where Network-Manager is connected.Only disconnect is available.

I think it is a network-manager-gnome bug.

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Jason Taylor (jason-infinitebubble-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-06-22:

I'm having the same problem in Xubuntu Lucid AMD64. nm-tool shows connected to wireless. Hovering over applet shows connected. However, the applet icon shows as disconnected.

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Thomas (t.c) wrote on 2010-07-05:

a update from my side:

I replaced the network card from Broadcom (wl binary driver) to a Intel Card and now I didn't have this problem again.

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Jason Taylor (jason-infinitebubble-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-07-08:

Strangely, a couple times I've had the icon suddenly start displaying correctly after having been connected for sometime. Once it was within about 10 minutes of having connected and once a couple hours after. I didn't purposefully do anything to make it start working and I don't know of any correlation between the two instances.

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Joshua Lückers (joshualuckers) wrote on 2010-08-01:

The issue also exists in the latest version of Maverick (10.10) with all updates installed.

tags:

added: maverick

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Joshua Lückers (joshualuckers) wrote on 2010-08-01:

Also affects maverick!

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote on 2010-08-03:

#10

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged

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Dan Williams (dcbw) wrote on 2010-08-05:

#11

This is due to wl.o reporting the *tuned* frequency when asked, instead of the associated frequency. This was worked around in NM 0.8.1, and more details are here:

http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/07/15/not-a-jackass-episode-1/

and the upstream fix is here:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?h=NM_0_8&id=6bd918bcb9144780b8148dd11974e323ba8b6686

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote on 2010-08-28:

#12

0.8.1 was uploaded to maverick some time ago. Could someone please confirm whether the signal level appears correctly with the wl wifi driver now?

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Joshua Lückers (joshualuckers) wrote on 2010-08-28:

#13

I can confirm that it works properly now.

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) on 2011-05-11

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

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