[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#673705: Bug#673705: Bug#673705: network-manager: Network Manager doesn't connect to wifi (greyed out) when device cannot report signal strength

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 11:07 +0200, Gennady N. Uraltsev wrote:
> Sorry for the ambiguity. I filed a bug against the kernel in Debian
> about this problem. Here it is:
> 
> 673703: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673703
> 
> Anyhow they said it was a hardware/firmware issue and that they wouldn't
> fix it themselves. They forwarded the issue upstream, to
> linux-wireless.

Two bugs here: first the ipw2x00 kernel issues that got fixed recently;
one is the encryption capabilities issue that causes the grayed out menu
items.  The other bug is an NM bug, fixed by:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=50435e1d5deff17233f1de73ee030a5982e9fd05

which should be a safe backport.  The NM fix is really the correct fix
until the ipw2x00 driver gets ported to cfg80211 in the kernel.  It's
10%  of the way there, which is what was confusing NM.

Dan



> 
> 
> On 05/20/2012 11:43 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > On 20.05.2012 23:36, Gennady N. Uraltsev wrote:
> >> 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B
> >> Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
> >>
> >> and the driver is the kernel module  ipw2100
> >>
> >> I already told them about this and they say it is a hardware/firmware
> >                  ^
> >                  who is them?
> > 
> >> limitation and they aren't sure it is fixable.
> > 
> > I thought this was kernel/driver issue and affected drivers were
> > ipw2100/ipw2200
> > 
> > CCing Dan, maybe he can his insight on this issue.
> > 
> >> On 05/20/2012 11:06 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >>> On 20.05.2012 22:55, Gennady N. Uraltsev wrote:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> There are many cards that have this problem, and I do not see any reason to
> >>
> >>> Which card and driver do you use?
> > 
> >