[Mageia-dev] After last update net applet shows wrong status

Sat Jul 16 18:42:31 CEST 2011

2011/7/16 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+> 2011/7/16 Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>:
+>> 2011/7/16 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+>>> Confirmed here as well. But it must be related to kernel change.
+>>> Booting with previous kernel = wifi works, booting with new kernel =
+>>> wifi does not work
+>>> (The chip is recognized and I see the available access points but no
+>>> connection possible)
+>>> See also https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=782
+>>
+>> I just tried it. After rebooting into Kernel-2.6.38.8 the applet is
+>> showing the status correct as online. Everything works.
+>>
+>> After rebooting into kernel-3.0.0 gain, the applet shows the status as
+>> inactive, but wlan works. Since someone mentioned something about
+>> suspend, I tried that as well. After resume, there is no change here.
+>> The applet shows inactive, but the wlan works.
+>
+> Wow! I would not think of this! I did not try because the system tells
+> me that wifi does not work - one must either have a very sick mind or
+> be a Linux user to test it anyway! :)
+Your decision :D
+
+
+To be honest, I wouldn't have tried as well, but I had pidgin opened
+and somebody began to chat with me although the applet showed me, I'm
+offline...
+
+So I checked with ifconfig, after he convinced me, he was not some
+ghost on my motherboard ;-)
+
+So at least here it's only a problem with the applet, not with the wlan itself.
+
+Oliver
+