@All: do we actually want this behaviour? Is SSID the only ID we can use to identify APs of the same "group"?
I was actually hoping we could *stop* connecting to other APs just because they have the same SSID. Plenty of routers come preconfigured with the same SSID, see "iPhone" or "Ubuntu" when you create a hotspot on those devices, or "ASUS" if you have an Asus router. Fixing this "bug" means trying to autoconnect to random APs that you find while walking around the streets. And when you couple that with bug #615239 you get the followign result: your phone will stop trying to autoconnect to your real home AP when you get back home because it is stuck on the password prompt that it triggered while trying to autoconnect to a random AP you found on your way home, just because it had the same SSID. Also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network- manager/+bug/615239/comments/18 -- 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/1478319 Title: Wifi doesn't reconnect to AP if it uses the same SSID than another AP Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: current build number: 68 device name: arale channel: ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/meizu.en last update: 2015-07-24 08:00:20 version version: 68 version ubuntu: 20150724 version device: 20150709-8965e37 version custom: 20150716-819-8-42 My ISP (Free in France) provides a hotspot service so that customers can use the connection of any other customer using a generic open Wifi connection (for reference http://www.free.fr/assistance/2303.html - in French) The SSID is called 'FreeWifi' on all the boxes but obviously APs are all different since it's customers' DSL routers. When I connect to one of this access point, suspend the phone and resume it in another location where the SSID is available but from a different AP, the phone doesn't connect to this AP and the list of networks in the network-indicator doesn't refresh and still show the list of network from the previous location. I have to forget the network called 'FreeWifi' and reconnect in order to refresh the list and make it work. It's 100% reproducible. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1478319/+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
