IM Emesene disables wireless connection in NetworkManager

Alright, here I go again hehe, I’m using Emesene as an alternative to Micro$oft Live Messenger, I’ve tried many IM programs and I ended up using Emesene, but i found a problem… the problem goes like this when I open Emesene and successful logged in, I can start chatting and all that but every time I click on Emesene’s menu bar Option → Plugins || Option → Preferences (it only happens when I click on these two) somehow I get disconnected from internet (if and only if connected wireless) then I take a look at NetworkManager applet to try to reconnect and I get “wireless is disabled” and I cannot longer connect wireless until reboot.

Things I tried:
1.- I tried logging out and logging in as same / different user - no luck
2 ~>service network restarts (I still get the same message “wireless is disabled”)
3.- I even tried replacing NetworkManager applet with WICD but I was unable to
get it to work properly, so I went back to NetworkManager

Here is the NetworkManager log output just when the problem occurs:


Sep 22 01:53:06 SuSE NetworkManager: <info>  WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch
Sep 22 01:53:06 SuSE NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 8 -> 2 (reason 0)
Sep 22 01:53:06 SuSE NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 0).
Sep 22 01:53:06 SuSE NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction, dhcp client pid 2684
Sep 22 01:53:06 SuSE NetworkManager: <debug> [1285138386.971461] run_netconfig(): Spawning '/sbin/netconfig modify --service NetworkManager'
Sep 22 01:53:06 SuSE NetworkManager: <debug> [1285138386.985252] write_to_netconfig(): Writing to netconfig: INTERFACE='wlan0'#012
Sep 22 01:53:06 SuSE NetworkManager: <info>  Clearing nscd hosts cache.
Sep 22 01:53:07 SuSE nm-dispatcher.action: Script '/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/autofs' exited with error status 1.

any ideas?

Emesene 1.6.3
Linux SuSE.site 2.6.34.7-0.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-09-14 14:21:06 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

i guess I won’t be using emesene no more… funny thing I don’t even get to the plugins || preferences windows before my wireless is disabled… :frowning:

wow! this is so wierd i just tried Emesene with the latest ubuntu and it happens the same!

This is even WORST than I expected!!
Not only wi-fi goes dead but also USB, after the error occurs the system
no longer recognizes USB devices, what is going on? Could it be a hardware
related problem since this also happens in Ubutnu 10.10?? I’ll try another distro
and see if I get the same error.

Now I discovered that whenever I tried to open a chat window on Skype it crashes
and samething no wifi, no usb…

This is so stupid, like I said in my first thread just clicking on a menu this
whole mess happens!

ONE REASON TO GIVE UP ON LINUX, UNLESS IS A HARDWARE RELATED PROBLEM …