Any reason why this bug is marked as wishlist? It has been failing for many years, and continues to be somewhere between an inconvenience and a headache. I keep running into it lately because it breaks automated tests or makes them unreliable.
-- 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/615239 Title: Every Wi-Fi disconnection is treated as an authentication error Status in NetworkManager: New Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: network-manager I'm using lucid, with the 0.8-0ubuntu3, in a laptop, and is incredible that the nm-applet couldn't diagnostic why the wireless connection was lost and only trow the password prompt when I've lost the signal. nm-applet should see the kern.log or dmesg to react at signal lost. For example, when the kernel try 3 times probe the AP and don't get response nm-applet say The pc are far away from the access point and can not be connected. Please, move close to the access point or try another more near. And by the way, when the authentication fails, or the association. --- Architecture: i386 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No existe el archivo o directorio CheckboxSubmission: ee8ebec101005ce57a9c3355b36ca8a7 CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) IpRoute: 172.16.254.0/24 dev wlan1 proto kernel scope link src 172.16.254.5 metric 2 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan1 scope link metric 1000 default via 172.16.254.200 dev wlan1 proto static Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No existe el archivo o directorio Package: network-manager 0.8-0ubuntu3 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=es_DO.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no Tags: lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686 UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/615239/+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
