Bug 225585

Summary:	NetworkManager can't find wireless network
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	James Krehl <jimmyk>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Tambet Ingo <tambet>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	/var/log/messages output of hwinfo --wlan /var/log/NetworkManager

Description James Krehl 2006-12-02 00:00:33 UTC

Some times when I switch locations, i.e. leave a network's area, nm-applet shows no wireless networks.  After a reboot however, it notices them all.  I have tried restarting NetworkManager, downing and reupping the wireless interface, restarting hal and dbus, however only a complete reboot seems to fix the problem.

Comment 1 Matej Horvath 2006-12-02 21:13:50 UTC

Please attach your /var/log/messages and output of the "hwinfo --wlan". 

Thank you.

Comment 2 James Krehl 2006-12-04 18:24:51 UTC

Created attachment 108183 [details]
/var/log/messages

entries after Dec 4 13:10 are from after switching areas and when the nm-applet was showing no networks

Comment 3 James Krehl 2006-12-04 18:25:29 UTC

Created attachment 108184 [details]
output of hwinfo --wlan

this is the output of hwinfo --wlan

Thanks!
jimmyk

Comment 4 Michael Wolf 2006-12-06 20:25:22 UTC

-> bono

Comment 5 JP Rosevear 2007-02-07 15:54:36 UTC

Jim, can you provide /var/log/NetworkManager after a failure?

Comment 6 James Krehl 2007-02-22 18:43:23 UTC

Created attachment 120626 [details]
/var/log/NetworkManager

I figured out a couple new things about this bug.  It appears to be limited to after the laptop comes out of suspend and not necessarily switching locations.  Also, I found that I needn't reboot to fix the situation.  Instead, I can do 

1) /etc/init.d/network stop
2) rmmod wlan_scan_sta, wlan, ath_pci, ath_rate_sample, ath_hal
3) modprobe ath_pci
4) /etc/init.d/network start

Comment 7 JP Rosevear 2007-04-16 13:36:17 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 216495 ***