[SOLVED] WiFi issues with NetworkManager 0.9.4

hermes · 2012-04-23 19:41:15

After upgrading to NM 0.9.4, wifi stopped working. I have a Broadcom chip. Here's the lspci output:

05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

Here's a log excerpt:

Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> (wlan0): driver 'wl' does not support carrier detection.
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <error> [1335207815.523410] [nm-device-ethernet.c:456] real_update_permanent_hw_address(): (wlan0): unable to read permanent MAC address (error 0)
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> (wlan0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'wl' ifindex: 2)
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> (wlan0): now managed
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <warn> (wlan0): couldn't get carrier state: (-1) unknown
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> (wlan0): carrier now OFF (device state 20, deferring action for 4 seconds)
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> (wlan0): preparing device.
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'managed') [2]
Apr 23 21:03:35 localhost NetworkManager[10841]: <info> Added default wired connection 'Connessione via cavo 2' for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:05:00.0/net/wlan0

Using the proprietary wl driver, wlan0 interface is seen as wired. With the drivers included in the kernel (brcmfmac), it's not seen at all.
rfkill output is blank, don't know why...
Downgrading to 0.9.2 "solves" the issue.

Any hint?
Thanks

Last edited by hermes (2012-04-26 21:33:47)

mcloaked · 2012-04-23 22:11:43

I also found my wireless failed after upgrading to 0.9.4 - this is on a machine with ipw2200 - downgrading to 0.9.2 got wireless working again.

Pitou · 2012-04-24 12:54:28

hermes, try deactivating ipv6. I got the same issue...

hermes · 2012-04-24 13:31:57

I've just tried appending ipv6.disable=1 to kernel line. No luck...

mcloaked · 2012-04-24 18:36:08

Disabling ipv6 did not help me get nm 0.9.4 working either. In my messages log I have the following:
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: keyfile: parsing mdc-guest ...
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: keyfile: read connection 'mdc-guest'
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> trying to start the modem manager...
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '
/lib/firmware'.
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill1 (a
t /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:03.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill1) (driver (unknown
))
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enab
led by state file
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enab
led by state file
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; ena
bled by state file
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> Networking is enabled by state file
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <warn> failed to allocate link cache: (-10) O
peration not supported
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth0): carrier is OFF
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: '
tg3' ifindex: 2)
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/N
etworkManager/Devices/0
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth0): now managed
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth0): device state change: unmanaged
-> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
Apr 24 19:26:33 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth0): bringing up device.
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth0): preparing device.
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason 'm
anaged') [2]
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> Added default wired connection 'Wired
connection 1' for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/net/eth0
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): using nl80211 for WiFi device
control
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver
: 'ipw2200' ifindex: 3)
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): exported as /org/freedesktop/N
etworkManager/Devices/1
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): now managed
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): device state change: unmanaged
-> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): bringing up device.
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): preparing device.
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason 'managed') [2]
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost dbus[664]: [system] Activating service name='fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1' (using servicehelper)
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <warn> bluez error getting default adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost dbus[664]: [system] Successfully activated service 'fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1'
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> wpa_supplicant started
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state: starting -> down
Apr 24 19:26:34 localhost NetworkManager[865]: <warn> Trying to remove a non-existant call id.

I then downgraded nm back to 0.9.2 and restarted NM and it works fine again.

This surely is a bug in NM? I will look to see if there are any bug reports - perhaps upstream?

mcloaked · 2012-04-24 18:58:50

I have reported at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29597

hermes · 2012-04-24 19:57:53

Thanks, following.

hermes · 2012-04-24 20:36:05

NM 0.9.4.0-4 is now working for me.

mcloaked · 2012-04-26 21:25:09

It is working for me too but the KDE panel display for the wireless connection fails to show the signal strength.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29632

hermes · 2012-04-26 21:33:24

I'll mark it solved, since the problem is gone. I cannot reproduce your new issue, since I'm not using KDE and it looks like it is related to kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement.
Maybe you should open another thread, as you did filing a new bug.

mcloaked · 2012-04-27 10:02:47

OK thanks - I labelled it as a networkmanager issue but if this is a problem with kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement then I guess that should be added to my bug report?

hermes · 2012-04-27 11:06:33

Try installing network-manager-applet, and see if the signal strength is correctly shown. If so, it's likely it is a kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement issue. If not, perhaps it's worth digging a little bit more, to see if the bug is related to NetworkManager (you maybe want to take a peek to wicd, then...) or to the driver. Since you state iwconfig correctly detects the signal, I think the latter is less likely.

mcloaked · 2012-04-27 14:05:55

I did install network-manager-applet but this also shows no signal - it seems maybe it is neither kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement, nor network-manager-applet at fault. So it seems that the connection is fine but the display icon on the panel or the link between the data about the connection held by networkmanager and the display is not set up correctly - however it is not a problem with all wireless connections and only (for me) my machine with ipw2200 - the same setup on another machine using the iwlwifi driver is fine and does show the correct strong signal strength!

mcloaked · 2012-04-28 12:21:38

I've reported upstream now: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675017

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#1 2012-04-23 19:41:15

[SOLVED] WiFi issues with NetworkManager 0.9.4

#2 2012-04-23 22:11:43

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#3 2012-04-24 12:54:28

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