[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#505637: network-manager: ipw2100/WEP WLAN connection randomly and sometimes freuquently drops out for a second

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 505637 wpasupplicant
thanks

Michael Banck wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.6-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Sometimes quite frequently, my WLAN connection (ipw2100 on a Thinkpad
> T40, using WEP) through N-M drops out (i.e. nm-applet shows zero
> reception and the internet is down) for a second or two.
> 
> During this, I get the following in syslog:
> 
> Nov 14 00:06:35 nighthawk NetworkManager: <info>  Supplicant state changed: 0 
> Nov 14 00:06:37 nighthawk NetworkManager: <info>  Supplicant state changed: 1 
> 
> Sometimes, this happens every few seconds, basically making the network
> unusable.  I do not recall having this problem without N-M.  Note that
> do not use WPA in the first place.


NM uses wpasupplicant for controlling the wireless interface, even for WEP and
not-encrypted wireless networks (to avoid special case code).

My guess is, that this is a driver issue (you can check the syslog if you have
firmware restart or similar suspect messages).

Nevertheless I'm reassigning this bug to wpasupplicant, to let its maintainers
decide if this might actually be a bug in wpasupplicant or the kernel.

Cheers,
Michael

> 
> 
> Michael
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
> ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
> ii  dbus                          1.2.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  dhcdbd                        3.0-4      D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
> ii  hal                           0.5.11-3   Hardware Abstraction Layer
> ii  ifupdown                      0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure netw
> ii  iproute                       20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
> ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.76-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.1-1    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
> ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.5-1   The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgpg-error0                 1.4-2      library for common error values an
> ii  libhal1                       0.5.11-3   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
> ii  libiw29                       29-1.1     Wireless tools - library
> ii  libnl1                        1.1-2      library for dealing with netlink s
> ii  libnm-util0                   0.6.6-2    network management framework (shar
> ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
> ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.4-2    Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
> 
> Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
> ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-2    network management framework (GNOM
> 
> network-manager suggests no packages.
> 
> -- debconf-show failed
> 
> 
> 


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