Public bug reported:
Hi,
Sorry, I am not entirely sure which package this applies to.
Here is the problem.
I have a Modem/router Netgear DG834G and a laptop with Ubuntu Feisty on it.
It works beautifully - wireless and everything.
However, here is the problem. My router is configurable so that only
pre-specified MAC addresses can connect to it. Yeah, it's very unsafe,
but it's an overkill since there aren't houses around me.
If my laptop is NOT in the list of approved MAC addresses, wireless
networking will fail. And that's fair enough. HOWEVER, the problem is
that it will fail QUIETLY, without telling me why or without even giving
me an error message.
If I do the very same thing with my Apple iBook, then a nice dialog box
nicely tells you that the connection to the AP could not be established.
I am not exactly a newbie; however, I was silly enough to forget about
the MAC address issue (in fact, I thought I had disabled it) and spent
hours and hours trying to figure out why it didn't connect.
I really, really think having a message explaining that the connection
could not be established is a _must_ here. I am not sure why this isn't
happening already - maybe not many people use such a lame protection
method? Well, I am not a big fan of "quiet fails", so I thought I'd
report this bug.
Which package is involved here? Is ther a daemon that handles this?
Thank you for listening :-D
Merc.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Wireless silently fail when the PC is not authorised to connect to AP
https://launchpad.net/bugs/76079
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