On 26/09/16 05:41, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 09/25/2016 10:31 PM, E James wrote: >> 2. Wireless connection. It took me several attempts, including a reboot, >> before I spotted the problem. I was typing my friend's wireless key as he >> read it to me and the system kept ignoring me - no connection, no error >> message. Finally I noticed that the connection manager was giving up and >> going into "offline" mode before I finished typing. Whose bright idea was >> that? I had to use copy and paste in order to enter the key sufficiently >> quickly. > I noticed this problem with 16.04, in various Ubuntu 'flavors'. It appears > (to me) that it doesn't give you enough time to type in the wireless > passphrase. > > I worked around it (my passphrase is quite long) by typing the passphrase > into a text editor, then selecting it and copying it, then initiating > connection to wireless, then pasting it into the dialog box quickly, and > hitting 'enter'. > > This is a pain to do, but it let me work-around the problem. >
There's at least one programmer somewhere who knows how to change the time delay. It is currently about 20 seconds, but I can't think of any reason why it couldn't be 60 seconds or longer. I have found that computers can be extremely patient unless the programmer tells them not to be. I had one headless PC which didn't start up properly because it was waiting for me to respond to an error message. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
