Bug 619934

Summary:	knetworkmanager can't enable networking
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Martin Wilck <martin.wilck>
Component:	KDE4 Workspace	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	cs, forgotten_--EoyBps8f, forgotten_ciXLpmu5Qn, nesnera, user2304, v.plessky
Version:	RC 1
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Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 11.3
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Description Martin Wilck 2010-07-05 20:14:55 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100527 SUSE/3.6.4-2.2 Firefox/3.6.4

knetworkmanager lacks a control to disable or enable networking completely. Thus if networking happens to get disabled somehow (happened to me in a failed attempt to suspend/resume my laptop, might come to pass otherwise easily), there is no way to re-enable networking under KDE. Under GNOME it's as easy as clicking on "enable networking" in nm-applet.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. log in with GNOME desktop
2. Click "disable networking" in nm-applet
3. log out and back in with KDE

Actual Results:  
No way to re-enable networking. Knetworkmanager applet is grey and shows only "unmanaged" on left click and "network management is disabled" on right click.

Expected Results:  
A "enable networking" control like in nm-applet is visible

Comment 1 Peter Puncher 2010-07-06 19:03:32 UTC

Hello,

maybe related to this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552862

Comment 2 Christoph Singer 2010-07-30 06:58:33 UTC

I'm having the same problem here on a thinkpad x31 and it is clear that the main problem is what is described in Bug #552862 (networking is disabled after suspend). I can re-enable networking by the shell command

dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wake

but that's not user-friendly, so we really need an "enable networking"-button in KNetworkManager applet.

Comment 3 Hans Benker 2010-08-15 10:25:44 UTC

*** Bug 526569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Christian Trippe 2010-08-29 17:18:35 UTC

*** Bug 635212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Vadim Plessky 2010-10-06 05:08:55 UTC

Hello, do we have progress on fixing this bug?

Behavior of KNetworkManager is somewhat strange.
I have in certain situations Network Connection popup window offering to connect via Wireless (or even connecting via Wi-Fi automatically), but Ethernet connection is disabled.
And there is no way to re-enabled Ethernet (wired) connection.
(Ethernet cable is physically plugged into computer)

I found two solutions for it:
1) shutdown OpenSUSE, reboot to Windows
   Than shutdown Windows, reboot to OpenSUSE.
  Sometime shtis helps, sometimes not...
2) Open YaST
  Disable "Networking managed by NetworkManager"
  Select "Traditional ifup"
 Ethernet connection would start in this case
 Or you can use ifup/ifdown for manual control

P.S. bug exists in OpenSUSE 11,3 final, with all updates applied via #zypper up as of Oct.2nd, 2010

Comment 6 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2011-12-08 19:26:50 UTC

11.3 is too old. knetworkmanager unmaintained. If this still happens with 12.1's plasmoid-networkmanagement and not opensuse-specific, please report it upstream.

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

You can also try a current version of KDE with older openSUSE versions.

http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories