I'm using kubuntu 16.04 and my wifi card is well known and work perfectly with iwconfig. But in Network Manager applet, no wireless lan appears, just wired connection. If I do : sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service wifi become avalaible in network manager Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot on Kubuntu 16.04 2. click on NM in tools bar 3. Actual Results: No wifi lan displayed Expected Results: same list as iwlist apdator scanning
Post here please output from: 1) nmcli device wifi list 2) nmcli device show
After the "sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service" $nmcli device wifi list * SSID MODE CHAN DÉBIT SIGNAL BARS SÉCURITÉ network1 Infra 11 54 Mo/s 77 ▂▄▆_ WPA1 WPA2 network2 Infra 11 54 Mo/s 55 ▂▄__ WPA2 $ nmcli device show GENERAL.PÉRIPHÉRIQUE: enp0s25 GENERAL.TYPE: ethernet GENERAL.ADR.-MAT.: B8:6B:23:3E:FB:77 GENERAL.MTU: 1500 GENERAL.ÉTAT: 100 (connecté) GENERAL.CONNEXION: Connexion filaire 1 GENERAL.CON-PATH: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/4 WIRED-PROPERTIES.PORTEUSE: marche IP4.ADRESSE[1]: 10.X.X.X/16 IP4.PASSERELLE: 10.X.X.254 IP4.DNS[1]: 192.X.X.X IP4.DOMAINE[1]: foo.org IP6.ADRESSE[1]: fe80::de53:88d0:29d5:4907/64 IP6.PASSERELLE: GENERAL.PÉRIPHÉRIQUE: wlp5s0 GENERAL.TYPE: wifi GENERAL.ADR.-MAT.: 80:86:F2:27:EE:21 GENERAL.MTU: 0 GENERAL.ÉTAT: 30 (déconnecté) GENERAL.CONNEXION: -- GENERAL.CON-PATH: -- GENERAL.PÉRIPHÉRIQUE: lo GENERAL.TYPE: loopback GENERAL.ADR.-MAT.: 00:00:00:00:00:00 GENERAL.MTU: 65536 GENERAL.ÉTAT: 10 (non-géré) GENERAL.CONNEXION: -- GENERAL.CON-PATH: -- IP4.ADRESSE[1]: 127.0.0.1/8 IP4.PASSERELLE: IP6.ADRESSE[1]: ::1/128 If you need the same output when it doesn't work, I need to reboot
Yes, I need to see the output when the applet is empty. Anyway, this looks like an issue in NetworkManager. If NM doesn't show any available wireless connection before it gets restarted, then also the applet won't show any wireless network or connection.
Ok I reboot and here is the ouput before and after sytemctl : $ nmcli device wifi list $ nmcli device show GENERAL.PÉRIPHÉRIQUE: enp0s25 GENERAL.TYPE: ethernet GENERAL.ADR.-MAT.: B8:6B:23:3E:FB:77 GENERAL.MTU: 1500 GENERAL.ÉTAT: 100 (connecté) GENERAL.CONNEXION: Connexion filaire 1 GENERAL.CON-PATH: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/0 WIRED-PROPERTIES.PORTEUSE: marche IP4.ADRESSE[1]: 10.X.X.X/24 IP4.PASSERELLE: 10..X.X.X IP4.ROUTE[1]: dst = 169.254.0.0/16, nh = 0.0.0.0, mt = 1000 IP4.DNS[1]: 10..X.X.X IP4.DOMAINE[1]: foo.org IP6.ADRESSE[1]: fe80::5799:c606:ed4:da2f/64 IP6.PASSERELLE: GENERAL.PÉRIPHÉRIQUE: wlp5s0 GENERAL.TYPE: ethernet GENERAL.ADR.-MAT.: 80:86:F2:27:EE:21 GENERAL.MTU: 1500 GENERAL.ÉTAT: 20 (indisponible) GENERAL.CONNEXION: -- GENERAL.CON-PATH: -- WIRED-PROPERTIES.PORTEUSE: arrêt GENERAL.PÉRIPHÉRIQUE: lo GENERAL.TYPE: loopback GENERAL.ADR.-MAT.: 00:00:00:00:00:00 GENERAL.MTU: 65536 GENERAL.ÉTAT: 10 (non-géré) GENERAL.CONNEXION: -- GENERAL.CON-PATH: -- IP4.ADRESSE[1]: 127.0.0.1/8 IP4.PASSERELLE: IP6.ADRESSE[1]: ::1/128 IP6.PASSERELLE: $ sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service $ nmcli device wifi list * SSID MODE CHAN DÉBIT SIGNAL BARS SÉCURITÉ network1 Infra 1 54 Mo/s 100 ▂▄▆█ WPA2 802.1X * Network2 Infra 6 54 Mo/s 80 ▂▄▆_ WPA2 Network2 Infra 6 54 Mo/s 47 ▂▄__ WPA2
Ok, that's a bug in NetworkManager. As I said, we display what NetworkManager see and if NM doesn't list any wireless network then we have nothing to display too. Report your problem to NetworkManager bugzilla.
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796