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Network Manager strikes again?

Post by wil »

Hey there, my wireless card was working great for ages and all of a sudden NetworkManager only shows "wireless is disabled".

I've got a broadcom chip with manually compiled wl.ko, it's loading great as usual. I ran some updated this morning so I'm pretty sure that had something to do with it.

Anyway, the wireless card itself seems fine. When I ifup the light turn on, when I ifdown the light goes out. If the hardware switch is turned to the off position Network Manager displays as such, just when the interface is up it will always show "wireless is disabled".

Anyway, here's some information... if anyone has a direction I should be going in I would appreciate it.

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wil@wil ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
      ==> PCI ID = 14e4:4727 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth2      IEEE 802.11  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:72 Mb/s   Tx-Power:24 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Managementmode:All packets received
          Link Quality=5/5  Signal level=0 dBm  Noise level=0 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

vboxnet0  no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr a4:ba:db:dc:e9:70  
          inet addr:10.37.1.50  Bcast:10.37.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a6ba:dbff:fedc:e970/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:47760 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:17142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:24858847 (23.7 MiB)  TX bytes:2371141 (2.2 MiB)
          Interrupt:17 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:13490 (13.1 KiB)  TX bytes:13490 (13.1 KiB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd only.
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		10.37.2.66
Address:	10.37.2.66#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.224.146
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.224.147
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.224.148
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.224.144
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.224.145

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wil@wil ~ $ inxi -F
System:    Host wil Kernel 2.6.38-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5 M 520 (-HT-MCP-) cache 3072 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips 9575.84 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 1199.00 MHz (2) 1199.00 MHz (3) 1199.00 MHz (4) 1199.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.10.2 Res: 1280x800@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile   GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network:   Card-1 Broadcom BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller driver wl BusID: 02:00.0
           Card-2 Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver tg3 v: 3.116 BusID: 0b:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (32.6% used) 1: /dev/sda ST9160412AS 160.0GB 43C 
Partition: ID:/ size: 145G used: 49G (36%) fs: ext4 
Info:      Processes 166 Uptime 54 min Memory 822.0/3766.4MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.23

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wil@wil ~ $ /usr/sbin/rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

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wil@wil ~ $ /sbin/iwconfig eth2
eth2      IEEE 802.11  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Link Quality:5  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0
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Re: Network Manager strikes again?

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Did you just upgrade LMDE to kernel 2.6.38? If so you'll have to reinstall the driver per http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=57056
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Re: Network Manager strikes again?

Post by wil »

I did that a month ago now that you bring it up, the kernel did not change this time. The first thing I did was to rebuild the driver just to be sure, does not appear to be a driver issue this time around.
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Re: Network Manager strikes again?

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Does it change if you
sudo rmmod -f wl
and then

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sudo modprobe wl
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Re: Network Manager strikes again?

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Nope, same exact behavior. I went as far as uninstalling the module, rebooting, rebuilding and reinstalling the module.

This all appears to work with the command line, seems that the GUI tools are mangling it. I did install KDE a couple days ago, wondering if the KDE tools might be stepping on the GNOME tools.
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Re: Network Manager strikes again?

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Would trying wicd make any difference? Easy to install and remove if it doesn't work. Just curious if something borked in network manager.
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Re: Network Manager strikes again?

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Not sure what exactly transpired here, but things seem to be working again. 8)

I installed wicd and opened it up, it then hung and I had to force quit it. Somewhere during that process the NetworkManager tray icon disappeared so I had to re-add it, I am now able to "Enable" wireless and things work great.
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Re: Network Manager strikes again?

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Perfect! I wonder if re-installing networkmanager would have done the same? Never thought to even try that.
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Re: Network Manager strikes again?

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I'm not positive but I have the feeling that booting into KDE started the entire thing, a collision of network managers maybe?

Was hoping not to have to spend too much time on it this morning, very happy to blindly have it working again. :lol:
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