[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#544217: Bug#544217: Bug#544217: network-manager: "wireless is disabled" message

[Michael Biebl]

Sam Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 01:43 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> severity 544217 normal
>> thanks
>>
>> Sam Morris wrote:
>>> Package: network-manager
>>> Version: 0.6.6-3
>> Is this a regression or has NM worked before? Problem might be, that you are
>> mixing bpo and stable, like kernel etc.
>> The bpo version of NM is not officially supported.
> 
> Not on this hardware. I just installed it today. Like I said, I only
> installed the version from backports.org to see if it would fix the bug.
> I've now purged and downgraded the networkmanager packages to versions
> from lenny.
> 
> As for the kernel; there's no point downgrading to the kernel in stable,
> since it lacks drivers for the wireless interface, and even the driver
> for the ethernet interface doesn't work in 2.6.26. :(
> 

If the rfkill state is not correctly detected, it's more likely a problem of
hal, so you might start checking there first.

Michael

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