Public bug reported: The problem occurs with ubuntu 11.10 as well and I don't know about former versions. The problem occurs with fedora 16 as well. My network card has two ethernet connections with wired connection 1 and wired connection 2 I am using wired connection 2 only.
The applet connects and disconnects all the time with a notify-osd notification which is very annoying because I have a notification every 2 minutes. See the video (was accelerated) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.18-genUser Name 3.2.1 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found. Date: Wed Jan 25 12:17:35 2012 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) IpRoute: default via 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.100 metric 1 IwConfig: lo no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true RfKill: 0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-23 (62 days ago) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH Wired connection 2 d758e451-7f39-41a1-bcc3-1ec6832e3fbd 802-3-ethernet 1327489566 mer. 25 janv. 2012 12:06:06 CET yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 Wired connection 1 17aa956a-1f8d-45e3-82fb-a9406f23697b 802-3-ethernet 1327489569 mer. 25 janv. 2012 12:06:09 CET yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 eth1 802-3-ethernet disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.3.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled ** Affects: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921518 Title: network manager icon is refreshing all the time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/921518/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs