On Thursday 26 of May 2011 12:15:35 Chris wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 23:15 +0100, Chris wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 15:26 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 12:55 +0100, Chris Baines wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > When I start my netbook, my home network does not connect > > > > automatically, I think this is because it is set to not broadcast. Is > > > > there anyway to get around this problem, and if automatic connections > > > > do not work for hidden networks why is the option still enabled? > > > > > > NM should be storing the BSSID of the hidden network if you've ever > > > successfully connected to it. Then, NM uses that to match up the > > > hidden scan result (the AP still shows up, just with a blank SSID) > > > with the real SSID. Can you run: > > > > > > iwlist wlan0 scan > > > > > > when this happens to you and report the scan result for your AP? Also, > > > does this connection have the "Available to all users" box checked in > > > nm-connection-editor? > > > > > > Dan > > > > I can confirm that the connection has the available to all users box > > ticked and I have attached the output of the command you included both > > before I told it to connect and afterwards. I was however unsure what > > you meant by AP? > > > > Chris > > Any progress on this issue, I was searching round the Internet and found > this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448437 that seams > to be the bug I have hit. I will try the workaround in the last comment > and get back to you though. > > Thanks, > > Chris
The problem is that BSSIDs of networks, we connected to, was stored by user settings service (which is not part of NM 0.9 anymore). I've posted a patch implementing BSSIDs storing inside NM. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707406 Jirka _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
