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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:26 am    Post subject: (Solved) NetworkManager - wireless device not ready Reply with quote

So, I'm using NetworkManager + nm-applet for organizing connections on my laptop. Now that it seems like I've managed to get my wireless device working, I was displeased to see that upon clicking the nm-applet icon in system tray the only thing stated under Wireless Networks category is grayed out device not ready. But I'm pretty sure that the WLAN device is working alright.
Code:
mrhn # ifconfig -v wlan0
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:5e:02:0d:77 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:17 Memory:91000000-91004000

mrhn # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm   
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

mrhn # lspci -k
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
   Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper


# iwlist scan seems to give a valid list of available networks. But NetworkManager just can't be bothered to see a thing. I'd most deeply appreciate some input on how to open up NM's eyes :)
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems *really* familiar:

Just do

emerge -q -1 dbus

And then reboot.

Please, report back if this fixes your issue.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, I'd never have guessed myself. Your suggested solution worked just fine, deepest thanks :)
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for reporting back, I have seen this bug three times now so I'm going to file a bugreport.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is sometimes also caused by the Wireless LAN being Soft blocked via rfkill.
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