I am trying to connect to a wireless access point through the network
manager applet in KDE but getting the following error
Failed to add connection
Not authorized to control networking
steps to reproduce
1. click on the network manager applet in KDE panel
2. select wireless network of interest and click the "connect" button
3. Enter the password
This gives the following error
Failed to add connection
Not authorized to control networking
I am using Panda wireless USB adapter. The following packages are
installed on this system which is mix of Debian Wheezy and Jessie
% dpkg -l network-manager cgmanager kde-full firmware-ralink
plasma-widget-networkmanagement
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture
Description
+++-===========================-==================-==================-===========================================================
ii cgmanager 0.33-2+deb8u2 amd64
Central cgroup manager daemon
ii firmware-ralink 0.43 all
Binary firmware for Ralink wireless cards
ii kde-full 5:84 all
complete KDE Software Compilation for end users
ii network-manager 0.9.10.0-7 amd64
network management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
ii plasma-widget-networkmanage 0.9.3.4-2 all
Transitional package for plasma-nm
% /sbin/iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
eth1 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
I am part of the netdev and plugdev groups.
% id
uid=1000(rajulocal) gid=1000(rajulocal)
groups=1000(rajulocal),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),104(scanner),107(bluetooth),109(netdev),122(lpadmin)
Any suggestions as to how to fix this?
thanks
raju
