Package: network-manager Version: 0.9.4.0-4 Severity: normal If a wireless network card isn't able to report signal strength Network Manager no longer allows connectiong to wifi networks. This was not so in previous versions. All available wireless networks are greyed out. This is due to the fact that the wifi adapter doesn't know how to report signal strength. Connecting through other adapters (external USB) is possible.
In particular #iwlist eth1 scan eth1 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 02:18:F8:7A:4E:5E ESSID:"eduroam" Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Master Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Quality:64 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : 802.1x Extra: Last beacon: 248ms ago and /var/log/syslog has the following line: wpa_supplicant[1826]: bgscan simple: Failed to enable signal strength monitoring There are many cards that have this problem, and I do not see any reason to grey out wifi networks that are reported by iwlist eth1 scan. If a network is reported one can want to try to connect to it. Greying out is useless, IMHO. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu2 ii dbus 1.5.12-1 ii dpkg 1.16.3 ii isc-dhcp-client 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5 ii libc6 2.13-32 ii libdbus-1-3 1.5.12-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.98-1 ii libgcrypt11 1.5.0-3 ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1 ii libgnutls26 2.12.19-1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 175-3.1 ii libnl-3-200 3.2.7-2 ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.2.7-2 ii libnl-route-3-200 3.2.7-2 ii libnm-glib4 0.9.4.0-4 ii libnm-util2 0.9.4.0-4 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-1 ii libuuid1 2.20.1-4 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian4 ii udev 175-3.1 ii wpasupplicant 1.0-2 Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii crda 1.1.2-1 ii dnsmasq-base 2.61-1 ii iptables 1.4.13-1.1 ii modemmanager 0.5.2.0-1 ii policykit-1 0.105-1 ii ppp 2.4.5-5.1 Versions of packages network-manager suggests: ii avahi-autoipd 0.6.31-1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed: [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile no-auto-default=00:0d:60:89:e5:28, [ifupdown] managed=false -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org