https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801206 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801206#c0 Summary: Network manager fails to enable wireless and can't force a rescan for networks Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: dfreeman@ieee.org QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 I often configure my phone as a portable WiFi hotspot. I would like my openSUSE 12.2 laptop to quickly connect to it after I have done so. I am running KDE on a Dell Studio 15. The method that I use at present: I slide the hardware enable/disable switch to the disabled position, which disables wireless in Network Manager. I then switch it to enabled, and Network Manager rescans for networks and immediately connects to the new hot-spot. You'd think I could simply toggle the "Enable wireless" check-box in Network Manager to achieve the same effect, but there is a bug which prevents the network from being re-enabled. The check-box is greyed out and can't be selected. Further attempts to enable the network only make the problems worse - killing the network manager and/or restarting networking via a command prompt are not reliable, and the network is often still disabled. Yet if I've got the check box greyed out, toggling the state of the hardware disable switch can enable wireless again. This is both a bug report and a feature request. Please fix the greyed-out check-box issue, and please add a feature (e.g. a button) to force a rescan of the network. Other competing OSes have this feature, and it is urgently needed. Waiting for it to rescan on its own is very painful when you really really want to get online with a newly activated hotspot. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.