Re: Network Manager patched on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 16:17 -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 00:00 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote:
> >> Hey, Dan!
> >> Thanks for the advice. I am certainly keen on helping the community to
> >> solve the problem, but the bug had been reported to launchpad with
> >> like a dozen duplicates. The daily builds were suggested as partial
> >> fix but since then I could get no information from anywhere and bug
> >> reports on launchpad do not seem to be updated anymore. My friend was
> >> asking me whether he should install Karmic and I couldn't say "yes",
> >> since if his first GNU/Linux experience would be like that, I think
> >> this would not be a good thing. So eventually I decided to contact
> >> this mailing list directly, so that I can get some firsthand
> >> information.
> >>
> >> My dream would be to get a new version of NM. Uninstall this one,
> >> install this one and have it work normally like it did in 9.04 %) All
> >> apps get bugs like this one sometimes - I am not complaining. I just
> >> want to know if something is being done and if yes - when is a total
> >> fix planned? To me it is a serious blocker.
> > 
> > You can't realize that dream until we get some help in debugging the
> > issue so that we can fix the problem.  We also can't do anything until
> > users help us debug the problem by answering the questions that I've
> > asked.
> > 
> > Dan
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> I have another one for Karmic, and I can do that as well. I've noticed
> that there does not seem to be any way to get it to pay any attention to
> an Ad-Hoc network. When I'm in range, the network appears in the
> knetworkmanager applet, but if I click on it, nothing happens (much the
> same as a hidden network did in a case we'd discussed in the past). I'm
> not sure what the debug info would say, but it should be interesting to
> find out. It looks like absolutely nothing happens at all.

Can I get some /var/log/NetworkManager output from that?  Based on that
we can enable wpa_supplicant debugging and find out from there.

Dan