On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 06:53:20PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote: > This is happening on two different laptops. One is using a usb wifi fob > with realtek chip set. My new laptop > uses intel wifi. I use wicd to select and bring up a connection. The first > try always takes a very long time > and fails with bad password. If I then immediately click connect again, it > connects in 1 or 2 seconds and remains > connected for a variable length of time. At starbucks (open AP) it connects > right away but disconnects > 4 to 6 seconds later. I haven't tried all permutations of machine and AP > but a recent debian seems to be the > main common point. Problem started on the old machine after upgrading to > sid. And now the new machine is > installed with jessie. (which was sid when the old machine was upgraded) > Its on my new machine I noticed the log files > growing and saw entries for wpa_supplicant every few seconds (syslog and > daemon.log) > Richard > Despite all the seeming bloatedness of NetworkManager, I've had quite good luck with it on my current Debian laptop. It especially helped once I found nmtui, because I don't have any window manager that works decently with the NetworkManager gui and I think that was my main source of frustration with it before.
The only other possible problem I can see with it, is if I want to manually change my ip on a interface I just added with vlan tagging or something, NetworkManager may interfere, but I usually only have to do that at work, where I have a Mac whose GUI works decently enough even for vlan tagging. -Nick _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
