I have a DELL Inspiron 8600, running openSUSE 11.1 and with an Intel 2100BG card. Up until a few days ago all was working with WLAN fine with NetworkManager but suddenly I now cannot connect to my WLAM via NetworkManager at all. NetworkManager shows my WLAN and I can select it, but it never connects (but also does not come up with any errors).
I have had to change to using the traditional ifup method and all works fine…but it is annoying as I would like to continue with NetworkManager.
well…not that I can remember (though in the christmas and new year stress…I might have forgotten)
what I have installed is:
NetworkManager
NetworkManager-glib
NetworkManager-kde
NetworkManager-kde4, and
NetworkManager-kde4-lang
Within my kde4, when NetworkManager is running, I can connect to the network via a cable without problems and the manager shows my wirless LAN…but I just cannot actually connect to it (which worked up until about a week ago).
I’ve got exactly the same problem. It started two days ago.
I had been playing with vpnc and the vpnc-networkmanager plugin though, so I thought that was what caused it.
Does anybody know how one starts troubleshooting something like this?
The first troubleshooting would be to try to recall version of Network Manager installed before it stopped working Maybe it got updated and thus stopped working (by the way if that’s true then it’s not an update;)). I would try then removing config files belonging to Network Manager (wherever they are as it should create new one after that)
I have also had a look in /var/log/NetworkManager and found the following:
…
Jan 4 21:21:29 wombi NetworkManager: <info> starting…
Jan 4 21:21:30 wombi NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the modem-manager…
Jan 4 21:21:30 wombi NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_generic_enable_loopback(): error -17 returned from rtnl_addr_add(): Sucess
Jan 4 21:21:30 wombi NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_wlan_switch
Jan 4 21:21:30 wombi NetworkManager: <info> eth0: driver is ‘ipw2200’.
Jan 4 21:21:30 wombi NetworkManager: <info> eth0: driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x21).
Jan 4 21:21:30 wombi NetworkManager: <info> Found new 802.11 WiFi device ‘eth0’.
Jan 4 21:21:30 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_0e_35_b0_1d_f9
Jan 4 21:21:30 wombi NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the supplicant…
Jan 4 21:21:30 wombi NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the system settings daemon…
Jan 4 21:21:31 wombi NetworkManager: <info> modem manager appeared
Jan 4 21:21:31 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): supplicant manager state: down → idle
Jan 4 21:21:31 wombi NetworkManager: <WARN> killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting killswitch power: dellWirelessCtl (/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl) not available or
executable.
Jan 4 21:21:34 wombi NetworkManager: <info> Setting system hostname to ‘localhost.localdomain’ (no default device)
Jan 4 21:21:34 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 1 → 2
Jan 4 21:21:34 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): bringing up device.
Jan 4 21:21:34 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): preparing device.
Jan 4 21:21:34 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
Jan 4 21:21:34 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 2 → 3
Jan 4 21:21:34 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): supplicant interface state: starting → ready
Jan 4 21:21:35 wombi NetworkManager: <info> Setting system hostname to ‘wombi’ (from system configuration)
Jan 4 21:37:21 wombi NetworkManager: <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failed to activate (ti
meout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
Jan 4 21:37:35 wombi NetworkManager: <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failed to activate (ti
meout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
Jan 4 21:37:46 wombi NetworkManager: <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failed to activate (ti
meout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service
Jan 4 21:38:14 wombi NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_signal_handler(): Caught signal 15, shutting down normally.
Jan 4 21:38:14 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): now unmanaged
Jan 4 21:38:14 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 3 → 1
Jan 4 21:38:14 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): cleaning up…
Jan 4 21:38:14 wombi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): taking down device.
Jan 4 21:38:14 wombi NetworkManager: <info> disconnected by the system bus.
…
…although NetworkManager recognises that eth0 uses ipw2200, the thing that seems weird is that it mentions dellWirelessCtl …could this be an issue perhaps?
kashton wrote:
> I have a DELL Inspiron 8600, running openSUSE 11.1 and with an Intel
> 2100BG card. Up until a few days ago all was working with WLAN fine with
> NetworkManager but suddenly I now cannot connect to my WLAM via
> NetworkManager at all. NetworkManager shows my WLAN and I can select it,
> but it never connects (but also does not come up with any errors).
>
> I have had to change to using the traditional ifup method and all works
> fine…but it is annoying as I would like to continue with
> NetworkManager.
>
> Has anyone else had this issue?
Yes, I have, and it happened just right after a software update last night.
Grrr! It works fine with the ifup method, like you describe, but I would
prefer to have it working with the networkmanager.
I can see the wifi net, click it, but nothing happens.
It is a sony laptop (not here right now) which used to work fine before
under suse 11.1.
Please post back if you find a solution.
Networkmanager sits idle; when checking with iwevent, nothing happens (no events) when I create new connections and try to use them.
I just upgraded to OpenSuse 11.1, and it worked right after installation. It must be an update that caused it to stop working.
No luck with the downgrade. I still have the same problem.
Moreover, using ifup makes things only slightly better - I connect to my network (or so iwconfig says), but I am not able to do anything with it (no transmission of data).
Details: I have a Dell XPS M1330, with a intel iwl3945 card. Wired network works well both using NetworkManager and ifup. Wireless network doesn’t work in both.
I don’t know if this is a Networkmanager or a OpenSuse11.1 problem.
I noticed in the NM log that this bit of code recurs several times:
Jan 12 11:11:52 rodolfo NetworkManager: <info> ge: 1 -> 2
Jan 12 11:11:52 rodolfo NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): bring(wlan0): device state chaning up device.
Jan 12 11:11:52 rodolfo NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): preparing device.
Jan 12 11:11:52 rodolfo NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
Jan 12 11:11:52 rodolfo NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3
Jan 12 11:11:52 rodolfo NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: starting -> ready
If anyone in this thread makes some steps forward, please share them…
Maybe it got updated and thus stopped working (by the way if that’s true then it’s not an update;)). I would try then removing config files belonging to Network Manager (wherever they are as it should create new one after that)