Bug#673705: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#673705: Bug#673705: network-manager: Network Manager doesn't connect to wifi (greyed out) when device cannot report signal strength

2012-05-21 Thread Gennady N. Uraltsev
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Sorry for the ambiguity. I filed a bug against the kernel in Debian
about this problem. Here it is:

673703: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673703

Anyhow they said it was a hardware/firmware issue and that they wouldn't
fix it themselves. They forwarded the issue upstream, to
linux-wireless.



On 05/20/2012 11:43 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
 On 20.05.2012 23:36, Gennady N. Uraltsev wrote:
 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B
 Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)

 and the driver is the kernel module  ipw2100

 I already told them about this and they say it is a hardware/firmware
  ^
  who is them?
 
 limitation and they aren't sure it is fixable.
 
 I thought this was kernel/driver issue and affected drivers were
 ipw2100/ipw2200
 
 CCing Dan, maybe he can his insight on this issue.
 
 On 05/20/2012 11:06 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
 On 20.05.2012 22:55, Gennady N. Uraltsev wrote:


 There are many cards that have this problem, and I do not see any reason to

 Which card and driver do you use?
 
 
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Bug#673703: linux-image-3.2.0-2-686-pae: module ipw2100 doesn't report signal strength

2012-05-20 Thread Gennady N. Uraltsev
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 3.2.17-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

The ipw2100 module fails to report signal strength.
With a Intel 2100 3B mini card this makes it impossible to use standard tools
for wireless. As a matter of fact roaming decisions and many others of standard
software are based on these values.

To illustrate what I am talking about. The command

#iwlist eth1 scan

outputs:
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
  Cell 02 - Address: 02:18:39:D4:13:B3
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:35  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: 252ms ago

Look at the field labeled signal level

I do not know how related is the line that sometimes appears in syslog:

wpa_supplicant[1826]: bgscan simple: Failed to enable signal strength
monitoring

Should I file the bug somewhere else?

Signal strength monitoring on other wifi cards like usb ones works
flawlessly...



-- Package-specific info:
** Version:
Linux version 3.2.0-2-686-pae (Debian 3.2.17-1) 
(debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-5) ) #1 SMP 
Sun May 13 07:51:23 UTC 2012

** Command line:
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-686-pae 
root=UUID=5a0ffa6d-f75b-430d-af8d-a77bfe7214e8 ro quiet

** Tainted: O (4096)
 * Out-of-tree module has been loaded.

** Kernel log:
[7.603608] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 
0xa000-0xa0ff: clean.
[7.603652] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 
0x6000-0x60ff: clean.
[7.603695] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff:
[7.604118] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: 
excluding 0x170-0x177 0x1f0-0x1f7 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x370-0x377
[7.605167] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: 
excluding 0x3f0-0x3ff 0x4d0-0x4d7
[7.605614] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: 
clean.
[7.605989] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: 
clean.
[7.606403] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 
0x0c-0x0f: excluding 0xc-0xc 0xdc000-0xf
[7.606446] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 
0xa000-0xa0ff: clean.
[7.606489] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 
0x6000-0x60ff: clean.
[7.606532] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: 
clean.
[7.607649]  clean.
[7.649423] lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
[7.649428] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[7.818737] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[7.818742] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation 
jketr...@linux.intel.com
[7.906101] snd_intel8x0m :00:1f.6: PCI INT B - Link[LNKB] - GSI 5 
(level, low) - IRQ 5
[7.906126] snd_intel8x0m :00:1f.6: setting latency timer to 64
[7.958170] snd_intel8x0 :00:1f.5: PCI INT B - Link[LNKB] - GSI 5 
(level, low) - IRQ 5
[7.958206] snd_intel8x0 :00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64
[7.967983] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2
[7.967987] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[7.968149] ipw2100 :02:02.0: PCI INT A - Link[LNKC] - GSI 11 (level, 
low) - IRQ 11
[7.968982] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
[8.380944] cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!
[8.884045] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 55399 usecs (2669 samples)
[8.884050] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[9.030209] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[9.030215] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), 
(max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[

Bug#673705: network-manager: Network Manager doesn't connect to wifi (greyed out) when device cannot report signal strength

2012-05-20 Thread Gennady N. Uraltsev
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  adduser3.113+nmu2
ii  dbus   1.5.12-1
ii  dpkg   1.16.3
ii  isc-dhcp-client4.2.2.dfsg.1-5
ii  libc6  2.13-32
ii  libdbus-1-31.5.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.98-1
ii  libgcrypt111.5.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.32.3-1
ii  libgnutls262.12.19-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0 175-3.1
ii  libnl-3-2003.2.7-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200   3.2.7-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200  3.2.7-2
ii  libnm-glib40.9.4.0-4
ii  libnm-util20.9.4.0-4
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


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Bug#673705: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#673705: network-manager: Network Manager doesn't connect to wifi (greyed out) when device cannot report signal strength

2012-05-20 Thread Gennady N. Uraltsev
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02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B
Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)

and the driver is the kernel module  ipw2100

I already told them about this and they say it is a hardware/firmware
limitation and they aren't sure it is fixable.

On 05/20/2012 11:06 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
 On 20.05.2012 22:55, Gennady N. Uraltsev wrote:
 

 There are many cards that have this problem, and I do not see any reason to
 
 Which card and driver do you use?
 
 
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Bug#664725: Info received (linux-image-3.2.0-2-rt-686-pae: Real-time kernel freezes immediately at boot most of the time)

2012-04-11 Thread Gennady N. Uraltsev
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Hello everyone,

Sorry for the delay but I have not yet found a way to get the debug
messages. I disabled the quiet option but there are some problems with
saving the debug messages. Netconsole starts too late and I do not have
a serial port. I will try to take a photo and to copy the info that gets
displayed.

However I wanted to tell you that I found out that the problem
disappears if the grub option

   set gfxpayload=keep

is removed, aka the framebuffer mode is not used.
Will write more about this tomorrow.

BTW I upgraded the kernel to the latest one available in sid:

Package: linux-image-3.2.0-2-rt-686-pae
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 3.2.14-1

and the problem is still there.
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Bug#667729: network-manager-gnome: Protected wireless networks are greyed out. Unable to connect through applet.

2012-04-06 Thread Gennady N. Uraltsev
Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.4.1-1
Severity: important

When clicking on the nm applet the wireless networks whose signal is present
are presented in a list but all the entries for protected networks are greyed
out and thus unclickable. The only way I found to connect to a protected
network is to manually go to  Edit Connections and add a wireless connection
with the correct SSID and password. This does NOT make the list entry
clickable, no matter what settings one chooses for the option make available
to all users. Finally, after setting up a connection this way, from root I do:

/etc/init.d/network-manager restart

then the network-manager restarts and by default connects to the wireless
network. However this is a very dirty workaround and because of this network-
manager is essentially unusable for managing wireless networks.



-- 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-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11 1.5.12-1
ii  dpkg 1.16.2
ii  gconf-service3.2.3-4
ii  gconf2   3.2.3-4
ii  gnome-icon-theme 3.4.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0  2.4.0-2
ii  libc62.13-27
ii  libcairo-gobject21.12.0-2
ii  libcairo21.12.0-2
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.5.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2 0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1   2.8.0-3.1
ii  libfreetype6 2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf-2-4 3.2.3-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.26.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.32.0-3
ii  libgnome-bluetooth8  3.2.2-1
ii  libgnome-keyring03.4.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0   3.2.3-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1  0.9.4.0-3
ii  libnm-glib4  0.9.4.0-3
ii  libnm-gtk0   0.9.4.1-1
ii  libnm-util2  0.9.4.0-3
ii  libnotify4   0.7.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-01.30.0-1
ii  network-manager  0.9.4.0-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-bluetooth3.2.2-1
ii  iso-codes  3.34-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam-keyring]  3.2.2-2
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info 20120402-1
ii  notification-daemon0.7.4-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]0.2.2-1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome  0.9.4.0-1
ii  network-manager-pptp-gnome 0.9.4.0-2
ii  network-manager-vpnc-gnome 0.9.4.0-1

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Bug#667729: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#667729: network-manager-gnome: Protected wireless networks are greyed out. Unable to connect through applet.

2012-04-06 Thread Gennady N. Uraltsev

This is the output of ck-list-sessions:


Session6:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = 'Gennady N. Uraltsev'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2012-04-06T12:42:41.925371Z'
login-session-id = ''



On 04/06/2012 02:20 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:

On 06.04.2012 12:08, Gennady N. Uraltsev wrote:


When clicking on the nm applet the wireless networks whose signal is present
are presented in a list but all the entries for protected networks are greyed
out and thus unclickable. The only way I found to connect to a protected
network is to manually go to  Edit Connections and add a wireless connection
with the correct SSID and password. This does NOT make the list entry
clickable, no matter what settings one chooses for the option make available
to all users. Finally, after setting up a connection this way, from root I do:

/etc/init.d/network-manager restart

then the network-manager restarts and by default connects to the wireless
network. However this is a very dirty workaround and because of this network-
manager is essentially unusable for managing wireless networks.


What's the output of ck-list-sessions?






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Bug#664725: linux-image-3.2.0-2-rt-686-pae: Real-time kernel freezes immediately at boot most of the time

2012-03-20 Thread Gennady N. Uraltsev
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 3.2.10-1
Severity: important
Tags: lfs

When trying to boot
the 3.2.0-2-rt-686 kernel on my machine it freezes most of the time. In
particular just after grub finishes loading the kernel and the initrd and
proceeds to boot the kernel the message Loading Linux or something of that
sort appears, the cursor blinks a couple of times (so far everything as usual)
but then the cursor stops blinking and disappears completely and the system is
completely unresponsive. Caps Lock, alt+sysrq+... and other keys don't have any
effect.

Normally, the message that appears immediately after this on my pc, when a
normal kernel is run,  is a debug message from udev (I think) described in:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654282

but that is NOT fatal and is present on all kernels (even the non rt ones).
However in this case nothing of the sort is displayed.

This problem seems very similar to the one in bug report 63269:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663269

that has been said to be fixed. As a matter of fact I have noticed one
difference:

with version 3.2.10-1 (current), if I load a normal, non-rt kernel first then
restart my pc and load the rt kernel the machine usually starts and doesn't
hang and works perfectly, while normally (for example running the rt kernel for
two times in a row) causes the machine to freeze. On the other hand, with
version 3.2.9-1 there was absolutely nothing to be done to make the machine
boot with the rt-kernel.

This strange behaviour makes me suspect that something may depend on the way
grub is booting the kernel (maybe some options that persist across boots).

However I have no idea how to debug this. If someone gives me some hints I
would be willing to provide any additional information.



-- Package-specific info:
** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached

** Model information
not available

** PCI devices:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O 
Controller [8086:3340] (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM Thinkpad T40 series [1014:0529]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- 
MAbort+ SERR- PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Region 0: Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Capabilities: access denied
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP 
Controller [8086:3341] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- 
MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx-
Latency: 96
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 3000-3fff
Memory behind bridge: c010-c01f
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e000-e7ff
Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- 
TAbort- MAbort+ SERR- PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-

00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 
[UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:052d]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- 
TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 4: I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 
[UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:052d]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- 
TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
Region 4: I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 
[UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:052d]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- 
TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 11
Region 4: I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7