[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#631277: network-manager: networkmanager causes kernel oops, still shows wireless network as connected when out of range.

[Qi Ji]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.1-6+squeeze1
Severity: important

Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100

I was connected to a wireless network, it is encrypted with WEP.
I moved my laptop to another room. Then, I realised that wireless has been
disconnected because i was too far.
However, networkmanager still showed it as connected.
Trying to actually connect, I moved my laptop beside the router. I turned off
the wireless hardware switch and turned it back on. But even when the hardware
wireless switch is off, networkmanager still shows the network as connected.
Then i clicked "disconnect" on the networkmanager's gnome applet. Then i did a
reconnect. During the reconnect, networkmanager repeatedly prompted me to enter
the WEP key, which I did. The WEP key is correct as it is the same as what i
previously used. After many retiries, networkmanager gave up. I tried to
reconnect again, just that this time, after entering the WEP key, kerneloops
applet notified me that the system has encountered a kernel failure.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser             3.112+nmu2           add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                1.2.24-4             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client     4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6               2.11.2-10            Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.2.24-4             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.88-2.1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11         1.4.5-2              LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.24.2-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26         2.8.6-1              the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0      164-3                GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1              1.1-6                library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2         0.8.1-6+squeeze1     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1         0.8.1-6+squeeze1     network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1 0.96-4               PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1            2.17.2-9             Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base            3.2-23.2squeeze1     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                164-3                /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant       0.6.10-2.1           client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmas 2.55-2                            A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptabl 1.4.8-3                           administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemm 0.4+git.20100624t180933.6e79d15-2 D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  policy 0.96-4                            framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp    2.4.5-4                           Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd          0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information