[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#667729: network-manager-gnome: Similar bugs in Fedora and Ubuntu

[Dylan Thurston]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.4.1-1
Followup-For: Bug #667729

I also encountered this bug.  There are similar bugs in Ubuntu,
Fedora, and Gentoo:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/973241
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815331
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7003656.html?sid=3dfae5840b7569cbe78f105c86b2a3e8

Note that all of this is specific to the ipw2200 driver.  If the OP
does not have that wireless set, then it is likely a different bug.

The underlying issue (as I understand it) is a kernel bug: when using
the newer nl80211 interface, it incorrectly reports that the card does
not support any encryption.  There is a kernel patch fixing that issue
here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg88069.html

However, you may want to consider putting a workaround in nm-applet as
well.  There is an Ubuntu PPA that does that here:

https://launchpad.net/~jools/+archive/ipw2200

Note that there are several other related issues; eg, the connection
strength doesn't show up in nm-applet.  I don't know if that kernel
bug has been fixed yet.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.17 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11             1.5.12-1
ii  dpkg                 1.16.3
ii  gconf-service        3.2.5-1
ii  gconf2               3.2.5-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme     3.4.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                2.13-32
ii  libcairo-gobject2    1.12.2-1
ii  libcairo2            1.12.2-1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.5.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.9.0-5
ii  libfreetype6         2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf-2-4         3.2.5-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.32.3-1
ii  libgnome-bluetooth8  3.2.2-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.4.2-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1      0.9.4.0-4
ii  libnm-glib4          0.9.4.0-4
ii  libnm-gtk0           0.9.4.1-1
ii  libnm-util2          0.9.4.0-4
ii  libnotify4           0.7.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.30.0-1
ii  network-manager      0.9.4.0-4
ii  policykit-1-gnome    0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-bluetooth                        3.2.2-1
ii  iso-codes                              3.35-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam-keyring]  3.2.2-2
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info         20120402-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]    0.2.2-1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome  <none>
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome     <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome     <none>

-- no debconf information