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3G modem gets detected in the logs but doesn't show in the applet also after this update

I ran into the same issue. Attached is the screenshot of NM applet with error message.
Also, here's the message from daemon.log:

May 1 09:16:20 localhost NetworkManager[4102]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 8 -> 3 (reason 38)
May 1 09:16:20 localhost NetworkManager[4102]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 38).
May 1 09:16:20 localhost dhcpcd[4918]: received SIGTERM, stopping
May 1 09:16:20 localhost dhcpcd[4918]: wlan0: removing interface
May 1 09:16:20 localhost NetworkManager[4102]: <info> (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 4918
May 1 09:16:20 localhost NetworkManager[4102]: <warn> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.use-user-connections: (0) GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.use-user-connections is not registered
May 1 09:16:20 localhost NetworkManager[4102]: <warn> User connections unavailable: (0) GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.use-user-connections is not registered

Reverting back to version 0.8.3-0.20110113 helps.

do pacman -Qo on those sonames Vladimir.

Same problem here: Networkmanager lost all configurations (Wireless, VPN, ...) and I cannot connect to Wireless anymore directly via Applet (must go to syssettingss with root passwd) (no log of activity when trying to connect).

check out networkmanager-0.8.998-3 network-manager-applet-0.8.998-2

@lonut Biru

vlada@localhost ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_networkmanagement.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_networkmanagement.so is owned by kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement git20110418-2
[vlada@localhost ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libknmservice.so
/usr/lib/libknmservice.so is owned by kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement git20110418-2

Turns out that previous version did not work after restart. So, I reinstalled 0.8.998-2, restarted NetworkManager, and now wireless connections work. I'm not sure what happened, but everything seems fine for now.

Hello,

it does work with network-manager-applet, but not with kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement.

with network-manager-applet it asks for root password when creating new connections because of policy doesn't allow all users

@Asem http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=a61deb48a5b617459b300066d92160831d98bf78

try to modify back and let me know if is working as before

@lonut thats what the problem really is, any new connection is treated as system connection not peruser one and if i put the password or modified the policy file to continue without a password i will find the connections in /etc/Networkmanager/system-connections

if you look in the history for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy.in you'll see that was dropped.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=67ba32cd299adf5ad58e5badfb00d9a3334cb714

ah thats right, i found that too
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/RemovingUserSettings

shouldn't the package modified given that change?

@oliver
are you using the git20110418-2? Did you restarted plasma after the update?

I have the same problem with networkmanager-0.8.998-3

i lost the track or what problems do you guys have :D. Can you stop saying "i have this problem" and just describe it again?

from what i see Asem bug is not really a bug but they dropped the support.

@Ionut
To sum up
new networkmanager seems to drop support of users connections, so any existing ones will not be accessible
the polikit will ask users for root passwords in order to stablish new one.
now i tried the 2 applets gnomes, and kde one
kde plasma applet can stablish new wired and wireless connections after giving the password or modifing the polkit but cant detect 3g modems or add a vpn connection.
gnome applete can do all stuff that kde applet does but can detect 3g modem and can add openvpn but fail to establish it( i will see why later)

so i think we can close the bug report for this package, what can be done is a postinstall message to notify users about the change or something and file another ones for each client because they seem to not adopt the change very well

here's the description again:
1) all the user connections are not shown in the connection list though they are still exiting in ~/.kde4/share/apps/networkmanagement/connections
2) can't connect to any user created connection unless it's a system connection and i sill have to provide the root password
3) new devices are not shown like 3G modems though the logs look pretty sane to me
4) gnome nm-applet works fine !

this is pretty much a polkit issue since it came up with other permissions issues like mounting usb stick in dolphin but that's another issue.

what was strange is polkit-kde was unflaged today though Gentoo, debian, Redhat, Fedora and Suse are providing polkit-kde 0.101 !

@BaSh, wonder

With latest networkmanager and kdeplasma-applet packages, I am unable to create a new wireless connection. It is impossible to create the connection from the applet, but possible from the "manage connection" interface, where the pôlkit dialog fires up.

Nonetheless, even once created through that interface, it is not possible to connect to the wireless network.

What DID work was to create the connection throught the gnome applet. Then, the connection can be established through the plasma applet.


These tests were performed after deleting the .kde4/share/apps/networkmanagement and restarting plasma.

Olivier

@ragheed
Ok, please point me to this 0.101 release of polkit-kde, because I read 0.99.0 here:
Upstream: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=polkit-kde-agent-1.git&a=tags
Fedora: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=polkit-kde.git;a=blob;f=polkit-kde.spec;h=a49e0d5a65909caca47cbb67b69f5fe90074213c;hb=HEAD
Gentoo: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent/polkit-kde-agent-0.99.0.ebuild?view=log
Debian: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/polkit-kde-1

Anyway, I updated kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement to a new snapshot (20110502), please try it.

@BaSh
my bad it's polkit not polkit-kde. seems i need to replace my glasses again

I can confirm this behaviour. However, it seems to be intended (not that I would appreciate that change). For now, I downgraded networkmanager and also the KDE plasmoid.

My problems since the update are:
- My hidden wireless network no longer autoconnects, used to work perfectly consistently before
- My wireless networks are now missing in the plasma network management applet
- I can't add a new one
- I added a new one via kdesu systemsettings but then can't edit it(permission denied), and can't see it in the plasma network management applet view therefore can't click to connect
- And it doesn't auto connect at all to the hidden wireless network
- Therefore no wireless access to hidden network
- If I try delete or edit the hidden wireless via systemsettings(or kdesu) network settings, network connections etc, it crashes eveytime.
- If I try delete the hidden wireless via applet, manage connections, get error "Removing connection failed. Error code is 0/2 ()."
- system connection option is now greyed out, never used to be
- Mobile Broadband tab is now greyed out, never used to be

I made my wireless not hidden, and removed all under .kde4/share/apps/networkmanagement and restarted plasma.
Then clicked on my wireless network via kde plasma network management applet and it works.
Made it hidden again, but then I found it impossible to connect again since it doesn't show up in the applet anymore.

For now leaving it unhidden.
- Mobile Broadband tab is still greyed out
- system connection option is still greyed out

Downgraded by doing:
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/networkmanager-0.8.3-0.20110113-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/networkmanager-vpnc-0.8.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement-git20110418-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

and added below to pacman.conf
IgnorePkg = networkmanager,networkmanager-vpnc,kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement

- All my user score type wireless networks settings are back
- Mobile Broadband tab is no longer greyed out
- Can connect to hidden wireless network again

I'm sure many all/other KDE users wireless networks /networkmanager/mobile broadband connections are going to break with this update.

Shouldn't the network manager be downgraded in the arch repos again until this is fixed? Many users won't know how to work around this and will be left with no network, if they rely on wireless.

For me, the things look like this si far:
- I can connect to wireless network I had previously, but trying to add new wireless connections gives the following error: "Adding connection failed. Error code is 0/2 ()"
- "Mobile broadband" tab is greyed out. When I plug in USB modem, it's still greyed out. From daemons.log:
May 2 17:31:06 localhost modem-manager: ModemManager (version 0.4) starting...
May 2 17:31:06 localhost modem-manager: Could not acquire the org.freedesktop.ModemManager service.
Message: 'Connection ":1.42" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.ModemManager" due to security policies in the configuration file'
May 2 17:33:41 localhost modem-manager: (Huawei): (ttyUSB1) deferring support check
May 2 17:33:41 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) opening serial device...
May 2 17:33:41 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB0): probe requested by plugin 'Huawei'
May 2 17:33:42 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) closing serial device...
May 2 17:33:42 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) opening serial device...
May 2 17:33:42 localhost modem-manager: (Huawei): GSM modem /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2 claimed port ttyUSB0
May 2 17:33:42 localhost modem-manager: Added modem /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2
May 2 17:33:42 localhost modem-manager: (tty/ttyUSB0): outstanding support task prevents export of /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2
May 2 17:33:42 localhost modem-manager: (tty/ttyUSB1): outstanding support task prevents export of /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2
May 2 17:33:42 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) closing serial device...
May 2 17:33:42 localhost modem-manager: (tty/ttyUSB1): outstanding support task prevents export of /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2
May 2 17:33:44 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB1): re-checking support...
May 2 17:33:44 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB1) opening serial device...
May 2 17:33:44 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB1) closing serial device...
May 2 17:33:44 localhost modem-manager: (Huawei): GSM modem /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2 claimed port ttyUSB1
May 2 17:33:44 localhost modem-manager: Exported modem /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2 as /org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/0
May 2 17:33:44 localhost modem-manager: (/org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/0): data port is ttyUSB0
May 2 17:33:44 localhost NetworkManager[4087]: <warn> (ttyUSB0): failed to look up interface index
May 2 17:33:44 localhost NetworkManager[4087]: <info> (ttyUSB0): new GSM/UMTS device (driver: 'option1' ifindex: -1)
May 2 17:33:44 localhost NetworkManager[4087]: <info> (ttyUSB0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2
May 2 17:33:44 localhost NetworkManager[4087]: <info> (ttyUSB0): now managed
May 2 17:33:44 localhost NetworkManager[4087]: <info> (ttyUSB0): device state change: 10 -> 20 (reason 2)
May 2 17:33:44 localhost NetworkManager[4087]: <info> (ttyUSB0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
May 2 17:33:44 localhost NetworkManager[4087]: <info> (ttyUSB0): device state change: 20 -> 30 (reason 0)

I suppose it's some kind of permissions issue.

Seems that the KDE plasmoid is broke for most configuration, though works for basic wifi configuration like None/WEP/WPA/WAP2 Enterprise). 3G modem support and VPN are broke and also support for hidden wifi seems to be.
This is because KDE will not support Network Manager 0.9 before 4.7.

If you are using KDE, your solutions are:
0) Downgrade networkmanager to 0.8.3-0.20110113, or previous, and kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement to git20110418-1, or previous.
1) Use the network-manager-applet of GNOME
2) Switch to wpa_supplicant/netcfg/wicd/*

Note, I had to patch kdebase-workspace 4.6.3 to build with NM09, this *could* (I cannot test it yet) broke the support for NM < 0.9; in that case the solution 0 will not work with KDE 4.6.3.

I have the same problem. I can't add or connect to any wifi. When I try a have the bug.png pop-up. This is the dmesg output:

[ 37.621795] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Start IWL Event Log Dump: display last 20 count
[ 37.621835] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0001617991 0x00000000 1002
[ 37.621857] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000012 0x000001b8 1005
[ 37.621879] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000040 0x000000d1 0103
[ 37.621901] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000135 0x041f0018 0401
[ 37.621923] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000236 0x04200097 0401
[ 37.621944] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000239 0x00000001 0451
[ 37.621966] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000259 0x00000000 0451
[ 37.621988] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000356 0x04210047 0401
[ 37.622009] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000475 0x04220047 0401
[ 37.622031] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000603 0x44230080 0401
[ 37.622052] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000617 0x00000017 0452
[ 37.622074] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000622 0x00173b6e 0450
[ 37.622096] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000627 0x00173b6e 0450
[ 37.622119] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000633 0x00173b6e 0450
[ 37.622143] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000638 0x00173b6e 0450
[ 37.622165] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000643 0x00173b6e 0450
[ 37.622188] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000648 0x001a3b6e 0450
[ 37.622210] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000653 0x001a3b6e 0450
[ 37.622232] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000658 0x001a3b6e 0450
[ 37.622254] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000664 0x00000100 0125
[ 37.622268] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Error Reply type 0x000002FC cmd REPLY_SCAN_CMD (0x80) seq 0x4423 ser 0x00340000
[ 37.622276] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Command REPLY_SCAN_CMD failed: FW Error
[ 37.626545] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Can't stop Rx DMA.
[ 40.476541] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
[ 40.916270] EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: user_xattr,commit=0
[ 42.527781] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
[ 67.617645] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x82000008.
[ 67.617650] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 15.32.2.9
[ 67.617682] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
[ 67.617684] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Status: 0x0002A2E4, count: 1
[ 67.617686] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Desc Time asrtPC blink2 ilink1 nmiPC Line
[ 67.617910] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: SYSASSERT (0x5) 0000000515 0x008B6 0x13756 0x00320 0x00000 764

If I try by iwconfig, this is what I get:

Output of iwevent:

11:46:30.951952 wlan0 Set ESSID:"XX-XX"
11:46:30.952250 wlan0 Set Encryption key:4A
11:46:33.533587 wlan0 Scan request completed


Output of dmesg trying to connect by iwconfig:

[ 337.622378] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Start IWL Event Log Dump: display last 20 count
[ 337.622423] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0001617914 0x00000000 1002
[ 337.622449] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000012 0x000001b8 1005
[ 337.622475] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000040 0x000000d1 0103
[ 337.622500] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000149 0x041e0018 0401
[ 337.622526] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000262 0x041f0097 0401
[ 337.622551] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000265 0x00000001 0451
[ 337.622577] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000284 0x00000000 0451
[ 337.622602] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000400 0x04200047 0401
[ 337.622628] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000499 0x04210047 0401
[ 337.622653] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000647 0x44220080 0401
[ 337.622678] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000662 0x00000017 0452
[ 337.622704] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000667 0x00163b6e 0450
[ 337.622730] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000672 0x00163b6e 0450
[ 337.622755] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000677 0x00163b6e 0450
[ 337.622780] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000682 0x00163b6e 0450
[ 337.622805] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000687 0x00163b6e 0450
[ 337.622831] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000692 0x00193b6e 0450
[ 337.622856] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000697 0x00193b6e 0450
[ 337.622881] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000703 0x00193b6e 0450
[ 337.622907] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: 0000000708 0x00000100 0125
[ 337.622931] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Error Reply type 0x000002FC cmd REPLY_SCAN_CMD (0x80) seq 0x4422 ser 0x00340000
[ 337.622976] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Command REPLY_SCAN_CMD failed: FW Error
[ 337.627539] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Can't stop Rx DMA.
[ 401.623178] wlan0: direct probe to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:ad (try 1/3)
[ 401.625212] wlan0: direct probe responded
[ 401.640145] wlan0: authenticate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:ad (try 1)
[ 401.642090] wlan0: authenticated
[ 401.647017] wlan0: associate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:ad (try 1)
[ 401.651270] wlan0: RX AssocResp from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:ad (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
[ 401.651278] wlan0: associated
[ 401.656679] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 401.657226] wlan0: disassociating from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:ad by local choice (reason=3)
[ 401.658965] wlan0: deauthenticating from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:ad by local choice (reason=3)
[ 401.696929] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain



The wifi card is ok. If I disable the networkmanager daemon from /etc/rc.conf and enable the network daemon everythings works again using iwconfig, but I have to reboot and not stop networkmanager and start network.

Sorry about my english :S. Any request just tell me.

Edit:

I'm using networkmanager 0.8.998-3 and kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement git20110502-1. A 64bits Archlinux installation. No problem before with the wireless card.

My situation:

In nm-applet wireless networks that I use started appearing in zones that they don't exist. For example in my university it started showing my Home wireless router as available and with signal.. then I killed NetworkManager and started it again, and it showed a network I use at a coffee shop... And the worst part is that it shows my univ network (eduroam), but when I try to connect it asks for password immediately.. I insert it and it asks again, over and over.

Downgraded to NetworkManager&nm-applet and it started working again, so the problem is from the NetworkManager and not any of the dependencies I guess.

Best regards

setup:
ArchLinux i686
EeePc 1000h
Awesome WM
NetworkManager
network-manager-applet

guys stop downgrading and start reporting bugs upstream. they won't be fixed magically if nobody report them.

bugs concerning networkmanager and nm-applet should go on http://bugzilla.gnome.org

Bug reported in GNOME https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649422
You can leave your comments if you have the same NM problem.

good news about the KDE plasmoid!
With both kdebase-workspace 4.6.3-2 and kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement 1:git20110524-1 wireless networks and 3G modems work again with NM09.

Andrea, thanks for this however it's not working for me at all.
Exact same problem with kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement 1:git20110524-1 , kdebase-workspace 4.6.3-2 and kdelibs 4.6.3-2 after a reboot.

I've also got all the latest packages.

Unfortunately I had to apply this workaround and downgrade ALL of the following to get it to work again. Obviously not ideal.
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/networkmanager-0.8.3-0.20110113-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/networkmanager-vpnc-0.8.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement-git20110418-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdebase-workspace-4.6.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdelibs-4.6.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

$ grep ^IgnorePkg /etc/pacman.conf
IgnorePkg = networkmanager networkmanager-vpnc kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement kdebase-workspace kdelibs

Any idea or something else I need to do to get it to work?

Correction I was using the latest kdelibs not as my above post:
[2011-05-25 04:40] upgraded kdebase-workspace (4.6.3-1 -> 4.6.3-2)
[2011-05-25 04:40] upgraded kdelibs (4.6.3-2 -> 4.6.3-3)
[2011-05-25 04:40] upgraded startup-notification (0.10-2 -> 0.12-1)
[2011-05-25 04:42] upgraded networkmanager (0.8.3-0.20110113 -> 0.8.999-1)
[2011-05-25 04:42] upgraded kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement (git20110418-1 -> 1:git20110524-1)
[2011-05-25 04:42] upgraded networkmanager-vpnc (0.8.2-1 -> 0.8.999-1)

The KDE plasmoid still didn't work.

Also the correct downgrade/workaround instructions are
$ grep ^IgnorePkg /etc/pacman.conf
IgnorePkg = networkmanager networkmanager-vpnc kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement kdebase-workspace kdelibs

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/networkmanager-0.8.3-0.20110113-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/networkmanager-vpnc-0.8.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement-git20110418-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdebase-workspace-4.6.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdelibs-4.6.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Sorry Divan, don't know why doesn't work for you. Maybe you could try to delete /var/lib/NetworkManager and reinstall 0.9 again

connections are working ok now ... UMTS modems are working also ... but i'm still not getting my old connections list ... any idea about this issue ?

Andrea, I tried your suggestion, applied the latest updates.
Then did this:
sudo /etc/rc.d/networkmanager stop
sudo pacman -R kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement networkmanager networkmanager-dispatcher-ntpd networkmanager-vpnc
sudo rm -rf /var/run/NetworkManager /var/lib/NetworkManager /etc/NetworkManager
mv /home/divan/.kde4/share/config/networkmanagementrc ~/Desktop
mv ~/.kde4/share/apps/networkmanagement/connections/* ~/Desktop

Then installed latest versions of the below after removing the IgnorePkg line in pacman.conf
sudo pacman -S kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement networkmanager networkmanager-dispatcher-ntpd networkmanager-vpnc

Rebooted

Exact same bug as before, hidden wireless doesn't work at all no matter what. Mobile broadband tab is greyed out.
I can connect to wireless network if it's not hidden.

Can you confirm that the above stuff that's not working for me is working for you? Don't understand why it would work for you and not me...

Another guy in the office here is going to attempt this on his Arch system now and we'll see if it works for him.

Andrea, I've checked with two other friends running Arch Linux and KDE.
Both of them when applying latest updates have the exact same bug as me.

Therefore, don't you think maybe kdebase-workspace, kdelibs and kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement should be updated back to the previous versions?
This way people will be able to connect to hidden networks and still use their mobile broadband.
Hopefully otherwise when 4.6.4 comes we won't be able to update to 4.6.4 unless we break the above.

just install network-manager-applet and modemanager and profit until is fixed

@Divan
I don't know why the updated packages don't work for you and your friends, but for me and others archers; anyway I'll explain here the difference between the old version and the new:
In both kdebase-workspace 4.6.2-1 and 4.6.3-1, I patched the NM-solid backend for NM08 to build with NM09.
In kdebase-workspace 4.6.3-2 the NM-solid backend is disabled.
The latter version in [extra] of kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement provides the NM-solid backend for NM09. Then, the updated packages in [extra] provide the right configuration in KDE for NM0.9. If you are getting some trouble you should report the bug to bugs.kde.org.
Also I'm updating now kdeplasma-applets-networkmanager to last git.

@Ionut Yeah I could do that but Andrea is saying it's working his side so that's concerning me about what's wrong on our laptops. Also, I believe this is going to effect a lot of KDE users on Arch negatively. Anyway Arch Users should be competent enough to work around this problem.

@Andrea
Thanks very much for the feedback and latest updates.
Unfortunately testing again this morning and not working yet. Exact same problems, all my saved connections disappear, hidden wireless cant work, broadband tab greyed out.

Wierd thing is you've got it working, I have no idea how, maybe it's my set up. I'll workaround this bug, and wait for a future update which I'm sure will fix it sometime.

Thanks,

Ok guys,
i have a side note
on wikipedia they report that the last stable version of networkmanager is 0.8.4.0

I don't know how packaging works, but i think we always have stable releases on extra

it is but that version is not compatible with gnome 3.

AFAIK Gnome 3 needs NM >= 0.9

I guess we can close this bug or please remember me the goal.

the problem is networkmanger droped userbased connections , and the applets (kde and gnome) didn't adapt the change well

Yey the latest updates definitely fixes this 100%. :)
I've confirmed with a few people that this is working again.
kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement 1:git20110620-1

Still doesn´t work here, with XFCE & networkmanager 0.8.9997-1 & network-manager-applet 0.8.9997-1. Only system connections, and asks for root password for new connections (and they are systemwide when created) (e.g. new wifi network).
Also doesn´t seem to store the passwords with gnome-keyring, because it doesn´t ask for the keyring password. Plus, when deactivating wireless through the applet´s menu, I can´t seem to be able to get it back on.

Generally speaking, it seems like my user is not able to "touch" networkmanager at all. Versions 0.8.3 were working perfectly.

@txus maybe you didn't get but it was already said multiple times here. UserSettings is dropped from 0.9[1] and only system connections are supported and the fact is asking root password is because upstream doesn't include a proper polkit policies.[2]

[1] http://live.gnome.org/action/login/NetworkManager/RemovingUserSettings
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652128

the fact that is doesn't store passwords in keyring might be a bug but is it logically not to do it because of system connections. every user should be able to use it. If you are not satisfied about this report it upstream as regression for wireless networks.

I'm going to close this bug because there are clearly upstream changes and not bugs

@wonder I was well aware that user settings were dropped in 0.9, but you gave the advice of using nm-applet, which doesn´t work for me and it actually IS working for some people apparently, hence the reporting. And thanks about the polkit policy advice, didn´t look into that.

It's work for me.

I disagree with André Felício. The network*manager* packages (at version 0.8.999*-1) do not work for me under a lightweight tiling window manager (wmii) that is launched by the startx command from a Linux Virtual Terminal. (I do not use KDE or GNOME.)

is there anything to do here?

No.

I followed the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager#Set_up_PolicyKit_permissions to create a /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla file and then added the following to my xinitrc file before my window manager is run:

/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
nm-applet --sm-disable &

Now NetworkManager works correctly. I'm able to add new connections and see all the existing ones.

There is one minor bug though: the GTK2 style in my user account (zukitwo theme) is not applied to the nm-applet menu or its dialog windows. Any idea how to fix this?

Never mind. I learned that nm-applet uses GTK3, for which I didn't have any theme specified. I followed the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#GTK.2B_3.x and specified a GTK3 theme and now nm-applet is beautiful on my system.

I have no more objections to closing this bug report. Problems solved (for me anyway).