I agree that this is very inconvenient. For example, I have a system at home that I leave unattended but I need it to reconnect automatically to my wifi, because I need to access it from abroad. If there is a disconnect and it can't reconnect immediately (e.g., because of a router reboot), the password dialog will prevent network manager from connecting to my wifi again, effectively killing my access to this machine.
So I would say that even if network manager needs to ask for the password because it can't know whether the password is correct, this should not block all other operations: network manager should try connecting to the wifi in the background (and if it succeeds, hide the dialog). This is also asked here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680625 Maybe https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1407907, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1316634 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1010745 are related? Users have requesting this since 2010: http://askubuntu.com/q/19137/51272 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #680625 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680625 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1633413 Title: Obsolete authenthication requests for WiFi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1633413/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
