Good news. I found the problem. It's entirely related to passphrase length.
- If I type a passphrase less than 8 characters long: I get the behavior I reported (it appears nothing happens, no activity indicator, no balloon error msg, nothing in the msg tray. But, the failed connection is saved as a known connection.). - If I type a passphrase 8 characters long, the nm-tray icon changes to something like an ellipsis (indicating activity). Then I get the expected balloon "disconnected" msg, and an alert in the tray's messages icon. I should have thought about this last night. I was testing almost all the *buntu daily images. Because I was obsessed with this topic concerning Lubuntu, I played with those "nm-tray" equivalents to see how they behave. I *did* notice last night (in more than one distro) that they had an edit check when entering the passphrase. The "connect" button was grayed out until 8 characters were typed. I wondered how they knew my access point's passphrase was 8 characters long. (I thought there was some kind of negotiation occurring with my access point as I typed.). It sounds like this 8-character requirement is at the Ubuntu base level. But, the other distros are handling it better? Lubuntu's lm-tray accepts anything, and does nothing with it (except saving it. Clicking that saved "known connection" similarly does nothing.). FWIW: I'm currently running Kubuntu 19.10 as my desktop. I tried to connect to an access point using a 6-character passphrase. It too won't proceed. So, this doesn't appear to be new (I never knew Ubuntu enforced a passphrase limit. Is that something it should do?). My guess is Lubuntu 19.10 has this same behavior. Probably nobody ever tried less than 8 characters? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1865949 Title: nm-tray silently fails with bad wifi password; saves connection To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nm-tray/+bug/1865949/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
