found this too on "bcm43xx and network-manager-gnome don't work completely right" :
Affects Status Importance Assigned To edit package network-manager (Ubuntu) Unconfirmed Undecided — Affecting: network-manager in ubuntu Filed here by: Juan Carlos Inostroza When: 2006-11-07 Package (Choose…) Status Importance Undecided Assigned to Nobody Me (Choose…) Comment on most recent change (none) Comment on this change (optional) E-mail me about changes to this bug report Also affects: + Upstream… + Distribution… Bug description [edit] I have a strange issue with network-manager and bcm43xx driver. On Dapper, network-manager chose the right (i mean the latest used) ESSID automatically and connect upon login. In Edgy, network-manager won't connect to the latest ESSID, until I type as root # iwconfig eth1 essid any After that, it joins the wifi network. Don't know if it's a bug from the bcm43xx driver (don't think so), network-manager-gnome. Juan Carlos Inostroza said on 2006-11-07: (permalink) Forgot something, also After booting, and running iwconfig, the network card reports itself as : eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"xxxxxxxx" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306" Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off The "1 Mb/s" part is the interesting. Peter Liedler said on 2006-11-07: (permalink) Thank you for your bug report. Can you please check if connection with a static ip address is possible automatically on boot? If so it seems to me as a duplicate of bug #64841 - a dhcp issue in edgy. Xamusk said on 2006-11-13: (permalink) I don't seem to be having those problems in edgy (amd64), but I'm having an issue where NM isn't able to make an ad-hoc network, nor it's able to connect to one already established (by a Palm TX), even though it detects the network. fuoco said on 2007-01-07: (permalink) I also have this problem where I must do sudo iwconfig eth0 ap any for network-manager to work properly. This is with open network. When I set wpa encryption I can't connect at all. -- Can't see available networks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73049 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs