On 4/28/2014 8:35 PM, John Hupp wrote:
On 4/28/2014 7:11 PM, Israel wrote:
On 04/28/2014 05:40 PM, John Hupp wrote:
On 4/28/2014 6:37 PM, John Hupp wrote:
On a Lenovo 3000 laptop with an integrated Broadcom network adapter,
I installed firmware-b43-installer and then successfully connected to
my hidden (SSID not broadcast) WiFi net.
But I see that it will not automatically reconnect. I don't have to
re-enter the password, but I do have to click the nm-applet
indicator, choose 'Connect to Hidden Wi-Fi Network' and then choose
my already-defined connection, which indeed has been saved but not
used to automatically reconnect.
If I edit the connection, I see that on the General tab it is already
set to 'Automatically connect to this network when it is available.'
The only way I have gotten this to work is to enable SSID Broadcast
(which most users probably do, even though disabling SSID Broadcast
is a common security recommendation).
Dual-booting this same laptop with Windows Vista, I see that Windows
knows how to automatically reconnect to the hidden net.
In case there is a startup timing issue of some sort, I see that my
laptop's wireless radio LED doesn't light until the Plymouth splash
screen appears.
Can I edit something to make this work?
I should have added that this is on Trusty.
Hi,
I am not at my Lubuntu Box right now, so I can't just check... does
Lubuntu use wicd or network-manager?
I think this bug was solved for network-manager so it should 'just work'
You should look in synaptic to see if you have wicd or network-manager
installed.
If you have wicd, remove that and install network-manager and go from
there.
It seems to me that Lubuntu uses network-manager though...
Also, some wireless cards take a while to connect to a network (a couple
of minutes even).
One of my computers connects almost instantly. One of the computers I
had, I had to wait and wait and wait, or turn off the wifi and turn it
on again to give it a kick start.
It was a b43 (broadcom) chipset... so you may just have to be patient.
But, this is GNU/Linux there is always a way to get something to work.
It uses network-manager.
I waited 15 minutes and it still did not reconnect. So I filed a bug
against network-manager at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1316634.
I note that similar behavior is described in a bug filed in 2008 at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/295796
but I'm imagining that there should be a separate bug filed for the new
release.
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