[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#720659: network-manager disturbes wpasupplicant (i386 only)

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.0-5
Severity: important

Dear maintainers,

I hope, this bug is not mentioned somewhere else.

The problem:
I changed from wicd to network-manager, as wicd is no more further developed.
As network-manager is telling in its documentation, it can also use /etc/network/interfaces, for this is what I prefer. I do not always use/need a windowmanager.

But it appears, that the wireless interface cannot be configured during boot, when network-manager is installed. When I am starting my windowmanager (in my case it is KDE with plasma-network-widget-kde installed) network-manager does not show the wlan interface.

ifconfig is telling me, it is existent, but got no IP (although an IP is configured in /etc/network/interfaces for that interface)

Then I tried 

/etc/init.d/networking restart

in a terminal window and I get:

 * Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not re-enable some interfaces
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces...                                                        wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Failed to bring up eth0.
Cannot find device "usb0"
Failed to bring up usb0.

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After doing this command, network-manager got the wlan interface, too. 

Note: This command is working without error, when network-manager is NOT running. In that case, everything is working well.

(Doing rmmod ath9k and modprobe ath9k did the trick, too)

I also tried NOT to comment out the configuration of /etc/network/interfaces for wlan0. In this case, wlan0 is getting no IP at boot, but is seen in network-manager. However, network-manager is configured, to automatically connect to a given accesspoint, but that also does NOT work!

Connecting manually is working well.

Please note also, the identical configuration is working on my other notebook very well! The only difference is the wlan hardware. Whilst the working one is 64-bit and got an Atheros AR5*** (with ath5k driver), the 32-bit one got an Atheros AR9*** (which uses ath9k) driver. However, IMO this should not make the difference.

Last info: I tried to purge and reinstall network-manager and wpasupplicant, but no success.

It would be nice, if you could take a look at it, I can live with my workaround for some time, but fixing would be nice.

Thanks for any help.

Best regards

Hans

-- System Information
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.6.12-1
ii  dpkg                   1.16.10
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.4-7
ii  libc6                  2.17-92
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100.2-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.36.4-1
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.23-5
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-7.2
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.21-1
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-3
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.5
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian12
ii  udev                   175-7.2
ii  wpasupplicant          1.0-3+b1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.66-3
ii  iptables      1.4.19.1-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5.2.0-2
ii  policykit-1   0.105-3
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5.2

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=true

/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: u'/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla'

-- no debconf information