Network Manager: "device is unmanaged"

[nwu]

I'm using Network Manager 0.7.0 on Ubuntu 8.10, with a Linksys WUSB100. After getting the rt2870.inf driver (from the "Win2K" folder on the CD), the card works great and lets me connect to the Internet, but I've found a small problem (it's not really a big issue, but I'd like to figure it out mostly so I can know how to use Network Manager better):

After I log into Ubuntu, Network Manager connects to my specified "connect automatically" network, but when I click on the icon, instead of there being a list of available networks, etc., under "Wireless Networks," there is simply "device is unmanaged." This means I can't change the network I want to connect to, look at connection statistics, etc. Oddly enough, if I unplug and replug my wireless card, Network Manager does manage my card, and I can see the list of networks, etc.

I've already tried both of the recommended modifications in this post, but both times, Network Manager did not even detect my wireless card upon rebooting.

Thanks.

[asg8516]

I too faced this problem with my Ubuntu Intrepid.

I found the following solution for the same:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/280417

Hope that saves your day.

Happy Computing!

[nwu]

That thread is fairly long though; which post contains the solution you were referring to?

[mchaggis]

The following worked for me from that thread

Whatever updates occurred in the last day set all the devices to managed=false in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

Change that and "sudo killall nm-system-settings" and it'll start working again.

Simple do the following:

sudo vi /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

Change "managed=false" to "managed=true"

sudo killall nm-system-settings

The network manager then notifies you that the network was detect and attempts to connect you, so if all of your settings are correct then you'll have nothing to worry about.

[Flimm]

Thanks, that worked for me! (Replacing vi with nano of course)

[n0deal]

Thank you very much for the pointer. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my wireless connection on my ubuntu 8.10 box suddenly stopped working. Cheers!

[radixor]

Thanks very much! This worked for me!

[flarkit]

The following worked for me from that thread


Simple do the following:

sudo vi /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

Change "managed=false" to "managed=true"

sudo killall nm-system-settings

The network manager then notifies you that the network was detect and attempts to connect you, so if all of your settings are correct then you'll have nothing to worry about.

And your tip worked for me too! Thank you, thank you, thank you

[Madh2orat]

This worked for me as well, I was going a little bit crazy trying to figure it out.

What caused it to happen in mine -I believe- was using the aircrack-ng suite, somewhere in there putting my card into monitor mode must have dont it, but thanks to this post, it's all working again.

Thank you all so much.

[guroos]

i hope this works for me as well..........i'm gonna check it out..

well......thanking u in anticipation