Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager
Wireless connects to wrong network on Bootup Wireless connects to the wrong network on boot up. It's supposed to connect to the last successfully connected network by default. My guess is that the Wireless app times out before my network has a chance to register its presence, so it moves on to connect to any other network already registered because it happens to register faster (my neighbor's). This is an intrinsic race condition of the wireless registration process. The Fix: Make these changes to Network App: (1) be able to set timeout value used by wireless app to wait for default network to register (2) be able to designate each registered network as "Banned" or "Ok to Connect" (3) add another wireless tab to Network App which lists Banned networks (the other will show Ok networks) (4) be able to choose either "Banned" or "Ok" as default status for any network trying to register to my computer for the first time (5) Fix this flaw: "Automatically Connect" cannot be turned off on secure networks without a password (it's grayed out). That means I cannot prevent my neighbor's network from competing with my own for connection since I don't know the password. Reverse the default. Also, get rid of the grayed out mode so I can change the "Automatically Connect" flag without needing a password. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Date: Tue Feb 16 19:30:22 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback IpRoute: 192.168.2.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.18 metric 2 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 default via 192.168.2.1 dev wlan0 proto static Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no SourcePackage: network-manager Tags: lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64 ** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid -- Lucid Alpha1 Wireless connects to wrong network on bootup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs