Bugzilla – Bug 114901
kinternet doesn't establish wireless connection
Last modified: 2006-05-07 11:31:56 UTC
IBM ThinkPad T40 model 2373 19U, Intel ipw2100 wireless. When I click the kinternet icon, it shows connected, but a ping results in "Destination Host Unreachable." At one point, I was able to connect by right-clicking kinternet and manually entering the default key (2 of 4); this was repeatable, but after a reboot it didn't work. On-board Ethernet was configured successfully with ifplugd but remained unplugged throughout these tests.
Created attachment 48554 [details] output of lsmod | grep ipw, ifconfig, iwconfig
Created attachment 48555 [details] ifcfg-wlan... from /etc/sysconfig/network
Doesn't work with "ifup eth1" either.
It's hard to tell what's causing this, but I'm wondering now if SCPM is involved. After having the machine at work all day on my "work" profile, I started it at home with the "home" profile. The interface checkbox in kinternet was not selected (showed eth1). When I selected it and connected, it worked. I am not sure what logs to send, as this seems fairly complicated (multiple interfaces + kinternet + SCPM).
Same with RC1. Configuring on-board Ethernet as ifplugd and on-board wireless as "started manually" (i.e. with kinternet) works out of the box. But as soon as I create profiles and try to switch, it takes a lot of fiddling about to get it working again. SCPM seems to be the main culprit.
I guess one reason whhy scpm and kinternet do not work well together is because scpm may restart smpppd which breaks the connection from kinternet to it. Do you encounter that problem? Another issue is that smpppd didn't considered association status for interface status. But this should have improved in RC2.
Yes, I sometimes get a red badge on the kinternet icon after switching profiles. But restarting kinternet doesn't help.
please use knetworkmanager in 10.1 - we won't fix kinternet bugs anymore