Bug 597495

Summary: KNetworkManager shows wrong status of connection in popup hint.
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Forgotten User GTSR6JWjet <forgotten_GTSR6JWjet>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P4 - Low CC: forgotten_--EoyBps8f, forgotten_Vbj9O2JbEw, wstephenson
Version: Milestone 5   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Description Forgotten User GTSR6JWjet 2010-04-16 21:32:18 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

If you setup some custom wired connection in knetworkmanager with all parameters (ip addr, mask, ...) specified manually (and valid) and activate it, the popup hint window keeps saying "Preparing to connect" forever, whereas in fact it is connected (and going to "properties" one can see "connected").

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do not plug in network cable yet.
2. Setup some custom wired connection in KNetworkManager with all manual (correct) values (ip addr, mask, ...)
3. Now plug in the cable and then click on your new connection to activate it.
4. Verify that connection really works (ping something, etc)
5. Click on network manager's tray icon so that menu with connections pops up.
6. Put mouse pointer over the line with your connection (but don't click), so that a hint with status pops up. On my box the status keeps saying "Preparing to connect" instead of "Connected".

Actual Results:  
Network manager's hint window shows wrong status of connection ("Preparing to connect" instead of "Connected").

Expected Results:  
Network manager's hint window showing correct status of connection ("Connected" as long as it is really connected)
Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2010-11-15 19:25:18 UTC
*** Bug 625931 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2011-12-08 09:00:50 UTC
This bug does not sound opensuse specific and 11.3 is too old to get any bug fixes of this kind. 

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_KDE#Before_you_report_bugs

You can try current KDE versions from the opensuse KDE repos.