Bugzilla – Bug 350601
NetworkManager spams /var/log/NetworkManager if wifi is disabled by killswitch
Last modified: 2008-03-06 18:48:20 UTC
I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad R61 8919-6VG with the iwl4965 driver. If I boot with the the wireless network disabled via the radio killswitch, NetworkManager will spam /var/log/NetworkManager with ten messages per minute. Then, if I enable and disable the network via the killswitch again, the messages stop. This looks similar to Bug #310509 but the messages are different. Dec 24 13:37:52 karl syslog-ng[2487]: last message repeated 9 times Dec 24 13:37:54 karl NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - hal-ipw-killswitch-linux returned 255
For completeness, could you attach the full /var/log/NetworkManager?
Created attachment 188885 [details] NetworkManager log file of a whole day
This looks kind of like bug 310509
I do not think so. The (error) messages are (totally) different. Here "NotSupported", there "InvalidArgs".
It's a driver issue which can be worked around with rmmod/insmod the driver: http://www.mail-archive.com/networkmanager-list@gnome.org/msg07445.html Reassigning.
Jan, please try iwlwifi-1.2.24 from my buildservice repo at [1]. Does the issue still show up? [1] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_10.3_update/
No, it does not show up anymore, it looks fine. Thanks!
Created attachment 198886 [details] Log with new iwlwifi driver The log with the new iwlwifi driver installed. From boot up to 18:53.
Too bad, there is another problem now: At 20:08, I tried to switch to wireless LAN by re-enabling it via the radio killswitch and then disconnecting the wired LAN. However, NN or HAL insisted in the killswitch being in its old position, thus overriding my request to enable the wireless network. Or do I have to install any update package in addition to iwlwifi-kmp-default-1.2.24_2.6.22.17_0.1-26.1 ?
Created attachment 198904 [details] Log of NN after re-enabling wlan0 by killswitch and disconnecting eth0 This log is the continuation of the last one. NN or HAL did not get the killswitch state change. Then I stopped NN.
Jan, would you please open a new bug for the new issue (comment #9+10) and assign it to me? Thanks. Closing as FIXED.
Bug 367902 submitted.