** Summary changed: - Disabling wireless from 'Wireless Networks' UI also disables Bluetooth + Disabled wireless network cannot be re-enabled from 'Wireless Networks' UI
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996900 Title: Disabled wireless network cannot be re-enabled from 'Wireless Networks' UI Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In the top right corner, click on the icon for wireless networks. From the drop-down menu shown, click on 'Enable wireless' to disable it. You will notice that this disables Bluetooth as well. This is unexpected as Bluetooth has a separate UI for enabling or disabling it. This is troublesome for the following use case: 1) initially both Bluetooth and WiFi (802.11) is enabled and working fine. 2) for some reason the user needs to keep Bluetooth enabled, say, for using a Bluetooth enabled moue, but wants to keep the wireless networking disabled. 3) due to this bug, when wireless networking is disabled, the Bluetooth mouse is rendered useless until wireless networking is re-enabled. This erroneous behavior is equivalent of the 'radio-kill' switch found on laptops that disables all radios in one shot. The fact that there are different UI for disabling Bluetooth and WiFi indicates a different intent--that of providing more granular control. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.14-c2new x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed May 9 09:32:41 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) IpRoute: default via 192.168.11.14 dev wlan2 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan2 scope link metric 1000 192.168.11.0/24 dev wlan2 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.11.15 metric 2 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-05 (4 days ago) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH Oarelahb b4ce06d6-8bf0-4f81-ac0b-8692127a9938 802-11-wireless 1332906797 Wednesday 28 March 2012 09:23:17 AM IST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2 Soham 68da02c3-d3f5-4946-adca-1b2af1cc722f 802-11-wireless 1336536138 Wednesday 09 May 2012 09:32:18 AM IST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH wlan2 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/996900/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
