This bug is still there. Here is a test case, but can also happen if low signal strength or some radio noise.
Take a modern cellular phone and connect the wireless radio (wlan) from the computer to the phone. When connected walk away from the computer and put the phone where it is unreachable. NetworkManager puts up a requester asking for the password and it won't dismiss itself. Sometimes you accidentally enter some letters and press connect and you can't connect to your wireless network to much you try. This has happened several times for me. It is very annoying. Better would be if there is a notification (right top of screen) telling that the password is incorrect and that there is a menu in "system/preferences/network connections" giving the option to set a password. It will retry the same connection if it becomes available. -- 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/322387 Title: network monitor doesnt retry connection after waiting for password for too long Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: network-manager I have set ubuntu (8.10) to automatically log in to gnome on startup - this results in the keyring manager asking for my password anyway, since it needs it in order to unlock the keyring so that it can connect to any of my wireless networks that i'm near. Trouble is if i turn the laptop on and walk off when i come back gnome is logged in and the keyring thing is asking for my password, but by the time i type it in the WPA authentication request that network manager initiated has timed out. Once i put my password into keyring manager, it just goes away, and network manager does not try to reinitiate the WPA logon. So I have to click the network manager tray icon and manually choose my wireless connection. What i'd like to happen is i turn my laptop, come back minutes later and gnome is up, and i'm connected to the nearest wireless network. What happens currently is i turn the laptop on, walk off, gnome logs in, network manager asks the keyring manager for one of my WPA keys, but keyring manager needs me to have sudo'd recently or something which i assume is usually accomplished by typing in your password to log in to gnome, so sits there waiting for a password to be put in while network manager times out and gives up. Then once i give the keyring manager my password it takes it but has no one to give my WPA keys to. Then i manually tell network manager which network to connect to. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/322387/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
