Bug 173792

Summary: NM doesn't offer WLAN connection
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Description Nils Philippsen 2005-11-21 08:50:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

NM doesn't detect my WLAN (non-announcing WEP 128bit) anymore after the latest
update of NM, i.e. it doesn't ask me for a passphrase nor brings the "rotating
dots icon", it just stays at the "broken network plug". When stopping NM and
doing "iwconfig essid ...; iwconfig key ...; dhclient eth1" it works flawlessly.

When plugging in the PCMCIA WLAN card (prism54 chipset), I get the following in
syslog:

--- 8< ---
Nov 21 09:09:16 gibraltar NetworkManager: <debug info>  [1132560556.505030]  ():
New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_30_b4_00_00_00').
Nov 21 09:09:16 gibraltar kernel: eth1: resetting device...
Nov 21 09:09:16 gibraltar kernel: eth1: uploading firmware...
Nov 21 09:09:16 gibraltar kernel: eth1: firmware version: 1.0.4.3
Nov 21 09:09:16 gibraltar kernel: eth1: firmware upload complete
Nov 21 09:09:17 gibraltar kernel: eth1: interface reset complete
Nov 21 09:09:17 gibraltar NetworkManager: nm_is_driver_supported: assertion
`dev->driver != NULL' failed
Nov 21 09:09:17 gibraltar NetworkManager: <information> eth1: Driver support
level for '(null)' is unsupported
Nov 21 09:09:17 gibraltar NetworkManager: <information> nm_device_new(): waiting
for device's worker thread to start
Nov 21 09:09:17 gibraltar NetworkManager: <information> nm_device_new():
device's worker thread started, continuing.
Nov 21 09:09:17 gibraltar NetworkManager: <information> Now managing wireless
device 'eth1'.
Nov 21 09:09:17 gibraltar NetworkManager: <information> Deactivating device eth1.
Nov 21 09:09:17 gibraltar NetworkManager: nm_try_acquire_mutex: assertion `mutex
!= NULL' failed
Nov 21 09:09:22 gibraltar last message repeated 3 times
--- >8 ---

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.4

Additional info:
With the previous version (NetworkManager-0.4-20.FC4.1) it worked just fine.
Comment 1 Benjamin Mack 2005-11-26 07:08:07 UTC 
I have the same problem. Especially this "nm_try_acquire_mutex: assertion...
failed" thing happens all the time. This bug could also be connected to a change
in the HAL interface.
Comment 2 Nils Philippsen 2006-03-07 08:23:00 UTC 
Lately it started working again although I'm not quite sure exactly when as I
often brang up the connection manually and didn't always try whether NM did the
right thing again.