KMail part-fixed, knetworkmanager broken

[Claude Jones]

On Sunday 25 January 2009 12:41:50 Anne Wilson wrote:
> Kevin & Claude - I can't find what's wrong.  It worked perfectly before the
> update.  Now the cog spins and the tiny progress bar sits at halfway, then
> it disappears.  I tried deleting the connection and creating a new one.  It
> immediately offered me my network, accepted my key, but then the same thing
> happened when I tried to connect.
>
> Kevin - could wpa be affected?

I'm not Kevin, and I'm not offering a "mine works so what's wrong with you?" 
comment - just noting that for me it is working. Here's my info:

rpm -qa | grep network
..........snip irrelevant.......
kdenetwork-4.2.0-1.fc10.i386
kdenetwork-libs-4.2.0-1.fc10.i386
[cj at cjasus ~]$ rpm -qa | grep wpa
wpa_supplicant-0.6.4-2.fc10.i386

I mentioned earlier I had a Broadcom 4306, but that's wrong -that's on my 
other laptop: on this machine the chip is:
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN 
Network Connection (rev 61)

Hope this helps. Did you do a full reboot? I'm finding as time goes on, that 
the old "you never have to reboot linux" maxim is fading; of course you had to 
for new kernels, but, there seem to be more and more issues that can be 
quickly cured by reboots - there's probably workarounds and commands that can 
substitute for most, but, sometimes, it's just dirty and quicker.

I guess you're down to sleuthing if all else fails - maybe 'network' got 
turned on? You're sure the network is up? Reboot the router? The usual 
suspects...  

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD