[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#649041: Bug#649041: network-manager-gnome: cannot turn on wifi after it has been turned off

[Norbert Preining]

HI Michael,

On Do, 17 Nov 2011, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Please attach a debug log of NetworkManager [1] when your are disabling
> and (re)enabling the device using nm-applet. Is this behaviour
> reproducible with
> nmcli nm wifi off
> nmcli nm wifi off

Yes it is (with the second line "on").

The effect is that the first line, turning off, does the usual thing:
NetworkManager[2185]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: activated -> unavailable (reason 'none') [100 20 0]
NetworkManager[2185]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0]
NetworkManager[2185]: <info> (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 26399
wpa_supplicant[2304]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 reason=3
NetworkManager[2185]: <info> (wlan0): taking down device.
dbus[2175]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper)
dbus[2175]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
NetworkManager[2185]: <info> WiFi hardware radio set disabled
NetworkManager[2185]: <info> WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

But the second line shows *nothing* at all.

But using the rfkill command it *does* work indeed.

kernel: 3.2.0-rc1

Best wishes

Norbert
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