tumbleweed NetWorkManager says wireless unavailable.

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#1

After updating to tumbleweed my iwlagn wireless network card is not working.
NetworkManager says wireless is unavailable.
I tried the original 11.4 kernel that was working before the upgrade and that was not it.
Possibly a NetworkManager issue.

21: PCI 200.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: y9sn.dTZhla03AE1
Parent ID: qTvu.oG+uH8EY+4D
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:02:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “Intel WiFi Link 100 Series”
Vendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
Device: pci 0x0083 “WiFi Link 100 Series”
SubVendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
SubDevice: pci 0x1305
Driver: “iwlagn”
Driver Modules: “iwlagn”
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xd1800000-0xd1801fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 45 (3683 events)
HW Address: 00:1e:64:52:c3:50
Link detected: no
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: “pci:v00008086d00000083sv00008086sd00001305bc02sc80i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: iwlagn is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe iwlagn”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #14 (PCI bridge)

#2

If i use command line, setup /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf I can connect. NetworkManager and wireless appears to be the issue.

#3

Same here, the NetworkManager log says:

<info> (wlan0): now managed
<info> (wlan0): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason ‘managed’) [10 20 2]

Networkmanager worked in Opensuse 11.4. In Tumbleweed, interface wlan0 only works when setup with command-line tools, iwconfig, ifconfig, etc.

#4

Shouldn’t be that way. Do you have both GNOME and KDE installed? Any other repos except Tumbleweed?

#5

SOLVED!

The solution for me was to update to wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-1.4.i586 from the Tumbleweed sources. The telltale messages from the NetworkManager logs were:

…[nm-device-wifi.c:1559] real_is_available(): (wlan0): not available because supplicant interface not ready
…[nm-device.c:3932] nm_device_state_changed(): (wlan0): device not yet available for transition to DISCONNECTED

Also see Re: wifi and NetworkManager 0.8.996

Thanks for the reply!