Phantom wireless device

[Rick Jones <rick activeservice co uk>]

I've suddenly started getting strange behaviour with my WiFi device. It's appearing twice in the NM applet with different names.

It's actually a RaLink RT2860, but it's additionally being identified as Intel 82801G. Looking in the logs both IDs are device ra0, which is getting NM a bit confused. Sometime it connects, sometimes it fails and hangs. The NM daemon also dies periodically which I suspect is related.

I can't think of any system change that's induced this, it's definitely not related to updating NM. I'm running 0.7.1.git.5.272c6a626-0ubuntu1~nm1~jaunty from Launchpad, and it's been working fine since I installed this version until a few days ago. Re-booting doesn't fix it.

I suspect it may be a udev issue, but I don't know where to look. Any ideas?

Typical extract of the log file is attached, with everything happening twice on ra0.





Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  starting... 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_rfkill_eeepc_wlan_wlan 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'ATL1E') 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_23_54_04_a2_7b 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): driver does not support SSID scans (scan_capa 0x00). 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'rt2860') 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_pci_1814_781 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): driver does not support SSID scans (scan_capa 0x00). 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'pcieport-driver') 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_pci_8086_27d6 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Unmanaged Device found; state CONNECTED forced. (see http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889) 
Aug 20 12:17:44 mineee last message repeated 2 times
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2) 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): preparing device. 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 2). 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Unmanaged Device found; state CONNECTED forced. (see http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889) 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2) 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): bringing up device. 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): preparing device. 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): deactivating device (reason: 2). 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Unmanaged Device found; state CONNECTED forced. (see http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889) 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2) 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): preparing device. 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): deactivating device (reason: 2). 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 0) 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 0) 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): supplicant interface state:  starting -> ready 
Aug 20 12:17:48 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): supplicant interface state:  starting -> ready 
Aug 20 12:17:49 mineee avahi-daemon[3453]: Registering new address record for fe80::222:43ff:fe24:1b24 on ra0.*.
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) starting connection 'Auto Jones' 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 3 -> 4 (reason 0) 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) starting connection 'Auto Jones' 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 3 -> 4 (reason 0) 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 4 -> 5 (reason 0) 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0/wireless): access point 'Auto Jones' has security, but secrets are required. 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 5 -> 6 (reason 0) 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 4 -> 5 (reason 0) 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0/wireless): access point 'Auto Jones' has security, but secrets are required. 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 5 -> 6 (reason 0) 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 6 -> 4 (reason 0) 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ra0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... 
Aug 20 12:17:53 mineee NetworkManager: <info>  (ra0): device state change: 4 -> 5 (reason 0)