Clear network settings does have other uses, even in the absence of bugs: you may want to remove a network from being autoselected, or remove a password for a home network before lending your device to someone. In the absence of a per-connection editor (like nm-applet has), "clear network settings" gets the job done. --scott
On Friday, February 12, 2010, Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi lists, > > I've recently been working on wifi & wpa association issues on the > 8.2.x releases (F-9, NM-6.5, Sugar 0.82) and there is bug I would like > to ask people to test for with Strawberry (of F11 images on XO), > Blueberry and the 0.87 SoaS builds. > > I have definitely seen it a long time ago, and it was known, but it > wasn't on dev.l.o as an open bug so I tracked it as > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10021 > > To repro you need an XO or SoaS and an access point... > > * Setup an AP with WPA or WPA2 encryption, with a passphrase > * Connect to it from XO giving the right passphrase > * On the AP, change the passphrase > * On the XO, reconnect. The reconnect will try to use the stored > passphrase, fail, and ask for a new passphrase. However, NM ignores > the new passphrase. > > Similar issues are likely to exist with changing between no > encryption, WEP, WPA, WPA2. > > Hopefully this is fixed in newer NM + Sugar, but it is something > nobody has been testing, and it does mess things up in the field so we > need your help... > > If this gets fixed, then we can remove the ugly "delete network info" > button from the control panel (which is just a workaround for this). > > (Why am I asking for this? I don't have equipment at all at this > moment, as I am "on the move".) > > cheers, > > > martín > -- > [email protected] > [email protected] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
