@ Tony Espy

This is absolutely a regression and absolutely should be released to the
standard repositories.

RE: Furthermore, the case outlined here is not the typical use case, as
NM should automatically re-connect a hidden network that's been
previously connected.

It may not be the "typical" use case, whatever that use case is, but it
seriously breaks basic, essential functionality in other use cases, like
mine.  Automatically re-connecting to networks is no good unless there
is only one network in range that you have ever used.

I work at a place where the secured intranet is hidden, but there is
also an unsecured visitor network that is visible.  With my laptop I
have to reconnect at hourly as I move between meetings (different access
points) and my desk.  With this bug, the network manager always connects
to the unsecured visitor network, which is useless to me.

To work around it I had to lock in the Jaunty version of network
manager, which is semi-broken with the Karmic network applet (can't edit
existing network connections), which prevents me from getting security
updates for these packages, and which also downgrades the bluetooth
code.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446394
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