Bug 3692

Summary:	Switching from GNOME classic to GNOME3: In Gnome3 network icon isn't green while network is up
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Palm Pre <palm_pre_stl>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	No connection icon in GNOME3 Today's massaged from /var/log/messages Output of tail /var/log/messages -n 100

Description Palm Pre 2011-12-10 17:59:16 CET

Description of problem: I have Broadcom chipset

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4311 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
	Memory at b6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
	Capabilities: [e8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 8a-19-73-ff-ff-5b-00-1a
	Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
	Kernel driver in use: wl
	Kernel modules: wl, ssb

I have NVIDIA graphic card 

 
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce Go 6150] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Presario V6133CL
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
	Memory at b2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at b1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nouveau, nvidiafb

Finally, I have GNOME3 working. Unfortunately, it drops wireless. 

Switching back to GNOME classic (log out from GNOME3) and there is a connection. Switching to  GNOME3 - no connection.



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Comment 1 Palm Pre 2011-12-10 18:06:55 CET

My mistake, a connection icon on menu bar isn't green. Running # drakconnect failed but connection works. 

Oops.

Comment 2 Palm Pre 2011-12-10 18:08:20 CET

Created attachment 1214 [details]
No connection icon in GNOME3

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2011-12-10 18:40:55 CET

Have you log in /var/log/messages ? I suspect networkmanager.

Comment 4 Palm Pre 2011-12-10 19:34:42 CET

The file is huge. I had a bunch of todays messages.
Network Manager was mentioned  a lot of times.

Comment 5 Palm Pre 2011-12-10 19:35:59 CET

Created attachment 1216 [details]
Today's massaged from /var/log/messages

Comment 6 Manuel Hiebel 2011-12-10 19:42:22 CET

A yes I have forget, I can use tail -f /var/log/messages do see what happend :/

Comment 7 Palm Pre 2011-12-10 22:39:29 CET

Well, 
# tail -f /var/log/messages
just gives 10 resent messages.

I tried hundred
# tail /var/log/messages -n 100
but there is no Networkmanager mentioned.

See attachement

Comment 8 Palm Pre 2011-12-10 22:40:28 CET

Created attachment 1218 [details]
Output of tail /var/log/messages -n 100

Comment 9 Manuel Hiebel 2011-12-10 23:08:59 CET

Blino, any ideas ?

CC: (none) => mageia
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-net ?

Marja Van Waes 2012-01-29 16:10:37 CET

Attachment 1216 mime type: application/octet-stream => text/plain

Comment 10 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-29 17:04:37 CET

@ Palm

Is this bug still valid?.

If so, what is the output of iwconfig when you're in Gnome 3?

There were errors related to wireless in attachment 1216 [details], but afaics the network started in spite of these errors and I didn't manage to see it stop when Gnome 3 started. Anyway, without knowing at what time you had a connection and at what time you didn't, it is hard to find the correct part of the log.

So, if it is still valid, can you please look what time it is when having a connection in Gnome 2, switch to Gnome 3, open a terminal, ping mageia.org, wait a few seconds, close it and return to Gnome 2 and observe that you have a connection again, look what time it is and attach the part of /var/log/messages that contains that time frame to this report?

CC: (none) => marja11
Source RPM: drakx-net ? => (none)

Comment 11 Palm Pre 2012-01-29 17:24:37 CET

As I mentioned in comment #1 the connection was working but icon in GNOME3 didn't show that.

Later it was fixed. 

I suppose it still works but can't confirm that at the moment.

Comment 12 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-29 18:02:07 CET

(In reply to comment #11)
> As I mentioned in comment #1 the connection was working but icon in GNOME3
> didn't show that.
> 
> Later it was fixed. 
> 
> I suppose it still works but can't confirm that at the moment.

Thanks, I missed that comment, I'll change the summary accordingly

Closing as fixed. Feel free to reopen when needed :)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Summary: Switching from GNOME classic to GNOME3 disables wireless connection => Switching from GNOME classic to GNOME3: In Gnome3 network icon isn't green while network is up