Bug 1019525

Summary: NetworkManager treats wifi as wired ethernet. Wifi doesn't work
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: cb-rhbugz
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description cb-rhbugz 2013-10-16 00:21:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
NetworkManager treats wifi as wired ethernet. Wifi doesn't work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-14.git20131003.fc20.i686

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot computer
2. Log in to XFCE (or Gnome but the network UI is less useful...)
3. Click on Network Manager applet

Actual results:
Wifi card is listed as: Ethernet network (Realtek RTL8192E/RTL8192SE)
No list of wireless networks is presented
Can also be seen using nmcli:
$ nmcli d
DEVICE  TYPE      STATE       
p4p1    ethernet  connected   
wlan0   ethernet  unavailable 
lo      loopback  unmanaged   


Expected results:
Realtek RTL8192E adaptor listed as wireless ethernet. List of wireless networks displayed in nm applet.

Additional info:
Computer is a Samsung N140 Atom Netbook from 2009. It was previously working with Fedora 19. Upgraded from Fedora 19 using fedup on 15/10/2013.
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2013-10-16 15:43:38 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1015598 ***