Network Manager fails to detect unsecured network.

Question

My current laptop uses a clean install of Arch Linux with the latest gnome-shell release. NetworkManager has no problem connecting to the wireless networks at home, but the problem I have is at college.
My college has an open wireless network; sometimes it fails to show in network-manager-applet. That's the first problem. The second problem, If it does show, it'll fail to connect. In order for me to connect, I had to install the iw package and type sudo iw eth1 connect <network-name> after it fails. Only then will it connect.
How do I fix this so that NetworkManager will stop acting up?
Here's the wireless adapter installed and the driver it's using. (I use AUR's broadcom-wl package because it can detect more networks and doesn't act up for me.)
[dbdii407@laptop ~]$ lspci | grep Broadcom
07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
[dbdii407@laptop ~]$ lsmod | grep wl
wl                          2558087  0
lib80211                3949       2    wl,lib80211_crypt_tkip
cfg80211              177058    1    wl
After connecting through iw
Thank you very much!
Last edited by dbdii407 (2012-10-31 18:55:47)

Answer 1

Maybe it is a "mixed interface issue", if that's the case, then you should read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud … ork_device
Hope it helps.
Last edited by RozenTensai (2012-12-09 18:40:33)