Re: After update to 1.2.0-3, NetworkManager seems to treat wireless interface wlp2s0 as a wired Ethernet connection

[Dan Krejsa <dan krejsa gmail com>]

Thank you, Thomas (& Lubomir & Beniamino)!

- Dan

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com> wrote:

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 20:18 -0700, Dan Krejsa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Arch Linux and recently updated network manager
>
> [2016-04-29 10:57] [ALPM] upgraded nm-connection-editor (1.0.10-1 ->
> 1.2.0-1)
> [2016-04-29 10:57] [ALPM] upgraded network-manager-applet (1.0.10-1
> -> 1.2.0-1)
> [2016-04-29 10:57] [ALPM] upgraded networkmanager (1.0.12-1 -> 1.2.0-
> 3)
> [2016-04-29 10:57] [ALPM] upgraded networkmanager-vpnc (1.0.8-1 ->
> 1.2.0-1)
>
> Now when I boot, NetworkManager appears to treat the wireless
> interface wlp2s0
> as a wired Ethernet connection, at least initially.
>
> From the system journal:
>
> Apr 29 18:10:31 shadow NetworkManager[410]: <info>  [1461978631.9958]
> rfkill3: found WiFi radio killswitch (at
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:02:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfki
> ll3) (driver iwlwifi)
> Apr 29 18:10:31 shadow NetworkManager[410]: <info>  [1461978631.9989]
> manager: (wlp2s0): new Ethernet device
> (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1)
> Apr 29 18:10:31 shadow NetworkManager[410]: <info>  [1461978631.9995]
> keyfile: add connection in-memory (bbf7403c-436b-4745-a48d-
> d2d8e313645c,"Wired connection 1")
> Apr 29 18:10:32 shadow NetworkManager[410]: <info>  [1461978632.0000]
> settings: (wlp2s0): created default wired connection 'Wired
> connection 1'
> Apr 29 18:10:32 shadow NetworkManager[410]: <info>  [1461978632.0006]
> device (wlp2s0): state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason
> 'managed') [10 20 2]
>
> Also, the network manager applet shows only a wired connection.
>
> I have to stop and start the NetworkManager service in order for it
> to treat wlp2s0 as
> a wireless device.
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this or how to fix it?

Hi,

It's a bug.

fixed upstream:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=dd4d8b24da29abfc786ce0b3030c74559b93d034


Thomas