it appears that restarting nm-applet solves the problem (at least, temporarily). this, however, has to be done from the shell prompt (killall nm-applet && nm-applet &) and cannot be done via the gui.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069554 Title: NetworkManager menu items have no effect when selected Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The NetworkManager menu items have no effect when selected. 1. wired connection works. 2. __known__ wireless connections work. 3. __unknown__ wireless connections do __NOT__ work because they require that I select the connection I want from the menu and there is no effect from selecting menu items. Specifically, when I click on the NM menu in the top menu bar (between bluetooth and sound volume), I see the usual items (wired network/disconnect/wireless network/disconnected/hot spot 1/hot spot 2/.../connecto to hidden/create new/vpn/enable/info/edit); and the list of the available wifi hot spots changes with time and they become (un)available. when I plug in a wired connection, I become connected to the internet and this is reflected in the menu too. however, nothing I do with the menu has any effect: I cannot disable/enable wireless/networking; I cannot select the hot spot to connect to &c &c &c. The only thing I can do it kill the NM process which is then auto- restarted. I tried reinstalling all the network-manager-* packages to no effect. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Oct 21 23:39:46 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) IpRoute: default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.105 metric 1 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (173 days ago) nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH wlan0 802-11-wireless disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1069554/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
