Bug 1187

Summary:	perpetual unconnect on wifi
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	y mun <muny>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	balcaen.john, ftg
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	networkmanager-0.8.4.0-3.mga1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description y mun 2011-05-07 12:38:55 CEST

Description of problem:
perpetual wifi unconnect with NetworkManager 


How reproducible:
Ever

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install NetworkManager
2. Launch NetworkManager 
3. See

It's seems to be not a NetworkManager trouble. I don't, and never, have this trouble on my Fedora.

Please remove libnm-settings-plugin-ifcfg-mdv.so from Mageia NetworkManager.

As 'mandriva-plugin' say : "This is not a production-ready version, nor it is officially supported as of now. (blabla) - at least in theory - it should work (blabla)" Maybe a trouble with nm_inotify_helper_get() Dont know... 

Simply please drop it for Mageia stable.

Comment 1 y mun 2011-05-07 20:55:23 CEST

Not only libnm-settings-plugin-ifcfg-mdv.so

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

Comment 2 John Balcaen 2011-05-08 15:11:16 CEST

You should simply edit networkmanager configuration to not use this plugin.

CC: (none) => balcaen.john

Comment 3 Frank Griffin 2011-05-08 15:16:40 CEST

Yesterday, all of a sudden NM couldn't activate my RTL8192SE wlan0.  Comparing to an old working system, I found that in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d, the script for the ESSID was missing WIRELESS_WPA_REASSOCIATE=no.  Adding it fixed things.

I also noticed that WIRELESS_WPA_DRIVER=wext wasn't there, but when I added it, ifcfg-mdv segfaulted.  I'm thinking maybe both of these were removed because of the segfault.

CC: (none) => ftg