Bug 693914

Summary:	Cannot Activate Wireless
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Le Sage <dlesage>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	dcbw, jklimes
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Description David Le Sage 2011-04-05 21:53:42 UTC

Description of problem:
With the new Network Manager, I cannot activate wireless networking.  If the hardware's wireless switch is switched to the off position, GNOME Shell's Network Manager menu shows the On/Off switches.  As soon as I switch the physical hardware switch on the laptop to "On", the Network Manager menu changes to "Invalid."

Wireless was fully supported and functional under the GNOME 2.x series Network Manager.

If I click on the Network Manager menu's "Network Settings" option, the Control Panel launches with this error message:

"The system network services are not compatible with this version."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.8.997-8.git20110331.fc15.x86_64



Additional info:
Smolt hardware profile:  

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_97f2bc7d-2209-49fd-885d-3ce26fe9b1f4

Comment 1 David Le Sage 2011-04-06 01:27:14 UTC

If I alt-Fn to another terminal, there is a string of Polkit errors for GDBus saying that Action.org.freedesktop.NetworkManager-use-user-connections is not registered.

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2011-04-06 16:03:34 UTC

It seems liek the old version of NM is still running.  What do you get when you run this command from the terminal?

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:org.freedesktop.NetworkManager string:Version

Comment 3 Dan Williams 2011-04-06 16:04:13 UTC

Remember that you'd need to reboot after upgrading, you can't just log out because that won't start the new NM.  Alternatively, you could:

service NetworkManager restart

after upgrading NM.

Comment 4 David Le Sage 2011-04-06 21:45:03 UTC

Hello Dan


Yes, I hadn't rebooted for a few days, although I have been logging in and out of GNOME and killed X a few times, so it may not have picked up a change to the NetworkManager daemon.


I just restarted the service and it is now picking up the Red Hat wlan - lovely, thanks!


By the way, FYI, I tried your other command and I think the syntax was slightly wrong because it returned this:

# dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Getstring:org.freedesktop.NetworkManager string:Version

Must use org.mydomain.Interface.Method notation, no dot in "string:Version"

Cheers and thanks.

Comment 5 Jirka Klimes 2011-04-11 14:11:02 UTC

David, the command syntax is OK. The problem is there are spaces, where bugzilla wrap lines. so maybe, its better to write it like this (you can copy with mouse and paste to a terminal):

dbus-send --system --print-reply \
--dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager \
org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get \
string:org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \
string:Version

BTW, can we close the bug then?

Comment 6 David Le Sage 2011-04-11 21:41:55 UTC

Thanks, Jirka.  Yes, feel free to close it.  :-)