Wireless networking broken -- what to do?

[James Amundson]

I haven't been able to get a wireless network connection since the last 
Fedora 15 NetworkManager update. As an added bonus, Plasma desktop 
crashes when the wireless connection fails.

(OK, I apologize for doing my usual thing -- paying only cursory 
attention to the content of the list until *my* setup breaks. I know 
there are changes afoot in NetworkManager, et al., but I thought they 
were all happening in -testing and -unstable.)

My system:

Fedora 15 (x86_64)

|abacus4>rpm -q NetworkManager
NetworkManager-0.8.9997-4.git20110620.fc15.x86_64
|abacus4>rpm -q kde-plasma-networkmanagement
kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.x86_64

I am using the standard kde-redhat repo, no -testing, no -unstable.

What do I have to do to get my wireless network working? For the time 
being, I am stuck with switching to Gnome, which is not making me happy.

Thanks,
Jim Amundson

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/30/2011 11:10 PM, James Amundson wrote:
>  |abacus4>rpm -q NetworkManager
>  NetworkManager-0.8.9997-4.git20110620.fc15.x86_64
>  |abacus4>rpm -q kde-plasma-networkmanagement
>  kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.x86_64
>
>  I am using the standard kde-redhat repo, no -testing, no -unstable.
>
>  What do I have to do to get my wireless network working? For the time 
>  being, I am stuck with switching to Gnome, which is not making me happy.
>  
Didn't someone else run into this sort of problem and report that "yum
downgrade NetworkManager" fixed it?  I'm doing this from memory....so
maybe check the archives.

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[Rex Dieter]

On 06/30/2011 10:10 AM, James Amundson wrote:
>  I haven't been able to get a wireless network connection since
> the last
>  Fedora 15 NetworkManager update. As an added bonus, Plasma desktop
>  crashes when the wireless connection fails. 
..
>  |abacus4>rpm -q NetworkManager
>  NetworkManager-0.8.9997-4.git20110620.fc15.x86_64
>  |abacus4>rpm -q kde-plasma-networkmanagement
>  kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.x86_64
>
>  I am using the standard kde-redhat repo, no -testing, no -unstable.
>
>  What do I have to do to get my wireless network working? For the time
>  being, I am stuck with switching to Gnome, which is not making me happy. 
Either downgrade to NetworkManager-0.8.9997-3 or upgrade to
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-...

it's currently in both updates-testing and kde-testing repos.

-- Rex

[Christos Lazaridis]

For me it was the -testing package that fixed it. Curiously downgrading did 
not work.

  Christos.

On Thursday 30 of June 2011 17:19:31 Rex Dieter wrote:
>  On 06/30/2011 10:10 AM, James Amundson wrote:
>  > I haven't been able to get a wireless network connection since the last
>  > Fedora 15 NetworkManager update. As an added bonus, Plasma desktop
>  > crashes when the wireless connection fails.
>  
>  ..
>  
>  > |abacus4>rpm -q NetworkManager
>  > 
>  > NetworkManager-0.8.9997-4.git20110620.fc15.x86_64
>  > 
>  > |abacus4>rpm -q kde-plasma-networkmanagement
>  > 
>  > kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.x86_64
>  > 
>  > I am using the standard kde-redhat repo, no -testing, no -unstable.
>  > 
>  > What do I have to do to get my wireless network working? For the time
>  > being, I am stuck with switching to Gnome, which is not making me happy.
>  
>  Either downgrade to NetworkManager-0.8.9997-3 or upgrade to
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.
>  53.20110616git.nm09.fc15
>  
>  it's currently in both updates-testing and kde-testing repos.
>  
>  -- Rex
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[James Amundson]

On 06/30/2011 10:19 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  Either downgrade to NetworkManager-0.8.9997-3 or upgrade to
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-...
>
>  it's currently in both updates-testing and kde-testing repos.
>  
Thanks, Rex (and Ed, and Christos). Updating to the kde-testing version 
seems to have done the trick.

Best,
Jim