plasma-nm nm09 branch snapshots coming to kde-testing

[Lukas Middendorf]

Patrick Boutilier wrote on Saturday 18 June 2011:
> On 06/17/2011 02:58 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> On 06/17/2011 12:06 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> >>> Sorry guys, let me know when this one's fully baked.
> >>> 
> >>> I tried using plasma to edit wireless connection (actually, just wanted
> >>> to look
> >>> at it).  It went into infinite loop again.
> >> 
> >> So, you just went into the connection editor, and didn't actually edit
> >> anything?  I'm just looking for a recipe to trigger this.
> >> 
> >> -- Rex
> > 
> > Yes, I believe I did manage connections, then click on a wireless
> > connection.
> 
> I can reproduce by going to Manage Connections, selecting the wireless
> AP I want and clicking the Edit button. At this point a dialog box comes
> up that says "No agents were available for this request". The title of
> the dialog box is "Error - KDE Control Module" . Click "Ok" and the
> "Edit Network Connection" box does come up. Select "Wireless Security"
> tab and enter WPA/WPA2 Personal password. As soon as I click "Ok"
> NetworkManager goes haywire.
> 
> Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]:    ifcfg-rh: updating
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
> Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]:    ifcfg-rh: updating
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
> Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]:    ifcfg-rh: updating
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
> Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]:    ifcfg-rh: updating
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
> Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]:    ifcfg-rh: updating
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
> Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]:    ifcfg-rh: updating
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
> Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]:    ifcfg-rh: updating
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
> Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]:    ifcfg-rh: updating
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
> 
> 
> And so on...
> 
> 
> At this point the only way out is to kill -9 NetworkManager. WPA2
> password never gets saved but I am able to connect if I type the
> password in each time when the dialog box pops up asking for the password.

Did you test nm-applet? I could not try the new plasma-nm, but with nm-applet 
I'm seeing the same behavior of NetworkManager when I try to setup a WPA2 
enterprise connection. So this might be a bug in NetworkManager itself instead 
of plasma-nm.