Bug 11053

Summary: NetworkManager is defective (Wi-Fi)
Product: Mageia Reporter: Desmond Armstrong <desmond.armstrong>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Description Desmond Armstrong 2013-08-22 10:17:09 CEST 
One can find the required access point but you cannot connect.

If you have a personal access point then simple reboot allows connection.

Unfortunately when you have several access points of the same name then you can never connect.

Oddly this means that we cannot establish connection to even unencrypted access points 

I have marked this as major because we do have workaround using wicd which is not even in our repository and so we have take tarball, extract and then install (easy)

http://wicd.sourceforge.net

This is a problem which is well known for some years we found the following:-

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/ubuntu-driver-for-smcwusb-n2-wifi-adapter-not-working-alternatives-821284/

So while there is workaround which enables us to use Mageia this is not enough because people will be installing Mageia and finding problem at such fundamental level will simply abort and install another distro, for my part I installed Debian 7 instead.

I have already reported the problem in bug 10727 and was very disappointed that nobody can acknowledge or provide solution.
this time I will not be closing the bug until such time as solution, not workaround, is provided.

Reference bug 10727

Also 7626 9261 5015 10032 5250 and many more.
Comment 1 Desmond Armstrong 2013-08-23 12:36:38 CEST 
This problem is now reported upstream:-
bugzilla.gnome.org - 706565
Comment 2 Desmond Armstrong 2013-08-24 20:09:02 CEST 
I have now un-installed NetworkManager, which was installed because of the presence of the Wi-Fi module?

The point is that now the system connects correctly and without any re-boot.

As there are these questions outstanding I will not, at present close this bug.
Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:03:33 CEST 
Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD