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Lyrositor
Asked: 2010-10-17 17:34:12 +0800 CST

Why is my network manager so slow to start?

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Ever since I installed 10.10, the network applet stays with a red exclamation point for about 10 seconds. I don't know why this is happening. Please help me, this is very annoying! I didn't have this problem when I was with 10.04. EDIT: I should maybe mention the indicator appears, but it says that there are no network available. Only after the aforementioned 10-15 seconds does it detect all the networks.

EDIT 2: This question is not answered! I have tried with another computer, and the network manager is already loaded upon login, so I know it's a bug. Please help!

EDIT 3: I have the same problem with my power indicator, actually...

EDIT 4: The problem is back once again. I have counted: it takes a full 15 seconds to load after my desktop.

EDIT 5: I have filed a bug report in Launchpad here. Can ANYONE help me?

EDIT 6: Still nobody?

10.10 network-manager

4 Answers

  1. I believe this may be an inadvertent feature of Ubuntu 10.10 by where the loading of the wireless driver is done after the GUI to decrease bootup time. If you'd prefer you can think of it as either everything takes 30 seconds to startup, or the GUI appears in 20 secs and the wireless comes 10 secs afterwards. Hope that helps!

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  2. Just thinking aloud here: 1. Try changing the security options in the WP. Set it to access without asking a password. See if that speeds things up. 2. If the same things worked with Lucid, then I think that the drivers are at fault.

    PS: I dont know anything about the development of the drivers, I am just a n00b.

    EDIT: I was looking around the conf files, and saw an option in another file, that might be of use here.

    at a terminal type the following

    sudo cp /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop.backup

    gksudo gedit /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop

    Add a line

    X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=10

    I hope that helps.

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  3. Avoid the issue, try another network manager eg wicd!

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  4. The network manager used by Ubuntu is flawed. KDE's network manager (would be Kubuntu or so) can use various backends like wicd, which is what I recommend to do: remove the network-manager (search related packages with Synaptic and remove them all) and install wicd.

    This error is well known, often reported on Launchpad and constantly ignored by the Ubuntu developers. They used a specifically patched version (I think they wanted to integrate some of the Ubuntu One/Social Gwibber stuff into one Gnome Applet). Anyhow... it's not useable.

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