knetworkmanager gets disconnected on its own..

Since 11.2, I am using Knetworkmanager for getting connected to the internet. But is getting disconnected on its own every now and then. I used Kinternet when I was on 11.1 and it worked fine, Infact I would prefer kinternet over knetworkmanager anyday. But in suse 11.2, having both KDE3 and KDE4 libraries does make system work unexpectdly. I tried installing Kinternet once but after that kontact kept crashing (because of clashes between kdelibs3 and kdelibs4).

Can anyone help me finding out the problem in knetworkmanger… here is entry in /var/log/NetworkManager when I got disconnected…


Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): device state change: 8 -> 7 (reason 0)                                                                                            
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): device state change: 7 -> 9 (reason 13)                                                                                           
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  Marking connection 'Reliance NetConnect' invalid.                                                                                            
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyUSB0) failed.                                                                                                                 
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0)                                                                                            
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): deactivating device (reason: 0).                                                                                                  
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <WARN>  monitor_cb(): Could not read ppp stats: No such device                                                                                       
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <debug> [1264928907.334120] run_netconfig(): Spawning '/sbin/netconfig modify --service NetworkManager'                                              
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  Clearing nscd hosts cache.                                                                                                                   
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: nm_system_device_flush_ip4_routes_with_iface: assertion `iface_idx &gt;= 0' failed                                                                      
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: nm_system_device_flush_ip4_addresses_with_iface: assertion `iface_idx >= 0' failed                                                                   
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): now unmanaged                                                                                                                     
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): device state change: 3 -> 1 (reason 36)                                                                                           
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): cleaning up...
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyUSB0): taking down device.
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh nm-dispatcher.action: Error in get_property: Method "Get" with signature "ss" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist#012
Jan 31 14:38:27 linux-9psh nm-dispatcher.action: Script '/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/autofs' exited with error status 1.
Jan 31 14:38:30 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <debug> [1264928909.999926] ensure_killed(): waiting for ppp pid 13607 to exit
Jan 31 14:38:30 linux-9psh NetworkManager: <debug> [1264928910.000295] ensure_killed(): ppp pid 13607 cleaned up

Please let me know what else information is needed to get this solved :slight_smile:
And yes, I am using openSUSE 11.2, KDE 4.3.4, kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop i686 GNU/Linux

I personally dont use knetwork manager, most of the time its quite buggy specialy in WPA/WEP connections. ifup works great.

Did you try ifup.
Its in YaST -> Network Settings. In Global options, change it to ‘Traditional Method with ifup’ and set up the network after it.