Bug 494953

If you're not running a GUI, how is the connection configured, through ifcfg files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts?

I'm not even that far. I upgraded to F11-Beta (NM 0.7.100-1.fc11) from Fedora 10 and after login, wireless networking seems impossible.

The widget is in my status tray with an X and 'Enable Networking' is indeed checked.

I went to system-config-network, providing root authentication then all of the interfaces (eth0, pan0, wlan0) are inactive (eth0 will work when plugged in). If I click on any of them, I am not offered the opportunity to 'Activate' the Wireless at all.

not sure that it's significant but...

ifcfg-wlan0 (hand typed because networking is not happening)
# Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adaptor
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=00:23...
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
ESSID=
CHANNEL=
MODE=Master
RATE=auto

nevermind...

modprobe -r acer_wmi

fixed it for me

Sorry about the delay. It turns out that as far as yum knew gdm wasn't installed due to a messed up switch from F10 to rawhide. Eventually the install that had been there broke. I've now reinstalled gdm (and various other things) and that doesn't seem to be relevant.

There seems to be very little rhyme or reason as to when it doesn't work. The chronology has been:

Working on Network A with old version
Upgrade to new version and no longer works with Network A
Downgrade to old and Network A works again
Try Network B and all is good
Upgrade again and it still works with Network B
Try Network A again and it doesn't work
Downgrade and it still doesn't work with Network A

iwlist provides the following about Network A:

wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: ##:##:##:##:##:##
                    ESSID:"BTVOYAGER2100-FF"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.452 GHz (Channel 9)
                    Quality:51/100  Signal level:-63 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Is this still an issue with current F11 2.6.29-based kernels and latest NetworkManager-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11?  Also, what wifi hardware?  The output of 'lspci' should tell you for most cards.  Thanks!

Give:

etworkManager-0.7.1.998-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora
11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in
this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update NetworkManager'.  You can provide feedback for this update
here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10696  

a shot, and also make sure you're running the lasted kernel updates (2.6.30.9-96.fc11).  Let me know what the result there is.

If that still fails, can you including your /var/log/messages from the time the problem happened?  Thanks!

This bug is believed to be fixed by:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/NetworkManager-0.7.2.995-2.git20100225.fc11,NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.2.995-1.git20100202.fc11,NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.2.995-1.git20100202.fc11,NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.2.995-1.git20100202.fc11,NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.2.995-1.git20100202.fc11

and earlier updates.  If not, please re-open.