When the issue occurs, the network manager tells me that there are wireless networks available, but it does not connect automatically to the hidden network.
Probably there is some state that is stored in NetworkManager: * When you have manually disconnected from a wireless network, you probably don't want to reconnect automatically. * When you was connected to a wireless network, you probably want to reconnect to that network. * When you have manually chosen a specific network, you might want to connect only to that network There should be something like on mobile phones where you can choose one network manually or let the phone choose the network automatically. Maybe some of such state information survives a reboot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316634 Title: Does not automatically reconnect to hidden WiFi network Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Running Lubuntu 14.04 32-bit on a Lenovo 3000 C200 laptop with an integrated Broadcom network adapter, I installed firmware-b43-installer and then successfully connected to my hidden (SSID not broadcast) WiFi net. But I see that it will not automatically reconnect. I don't have to re-enter the password, but I do have to click the nm-applet indicator, choose 'Connect to Hidden Wi-Fi Network' and then choose my already- defined connection, which indeed has been saved but not used to automatically reconnect. If I edit the connection, I see that on the General tab it is already set to 'Automatically connect to this network when it is available.' The only way I can get automatic reconnection is to enable SSID Broadcast. And a similar effect: If I am connected to the network while SSID Broadcast is in effect and then disable SSID Broadcast, network- manager immediately loses the connection. Someone suggested that network-manager would find the hidden network if I just waited, but after waiting 15 minutes it had still not connected. Dual-booting this same laptop with Windows Vista, I see that Windows knows how to automatically reconnect to the hidden net. I see that https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network- manager/+bug/295796 describes similar behavior, but that was reported back in 2008 and I'm imagining that there should be a separate report for the new release. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iw' CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Tue May 6 10:24:32 2014 IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-25 (10 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140416.2) IpRoute: default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.118 metric 9 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH Wired connection 1 ac7ba941-660f-40c5-9b1f-4d24accc6225 802-3-ethernet 1399385892 Tue 06 May 2014 10:18:12 AM EDT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 PRP d25473c0-98d8-4d93-ab37-3dd070bbd34b 802-11-wireless 1399386192 Tue 06 May 2014 10:23:12 AM EDT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1316634/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
