[ralink] NetworkManager takes far too long to get a wireless connection on login

[Martin Coxall]

Binary package hint: network-manager

After a boot, and logging into the screen, NetworkManager takes several minutes of spinning to successfully get a wireless connection. Occasionally, it gets none at all, but reselecting the correct wireless connection from the drop down fixes it.

These several minutes of spinning happen on every boot.

My wireless card is an ralink chipset PCI wireless card.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Please attach your /var/log/syslog

Thanks,
 - Alexander

[Martin Coxall (pseudo-meta)]

Syslog attached...

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

there are new packages in my ppa:

0.6.5-0ubuntu16~ppa3 ...
    http://ppa.launchpad.net/asac/ubuntu/pool/main/n/network-manager/

please test if those are better.

[Martin Coxall (pseudo-meta)]

It's a different diagnosis with those packages.

The nm-applet spins for about a minute, before displaying the exclamation mark notification and no network. At that point, I can click on the applet, choose the wireless network it should have been connecting to, and it will connect in a few seconds.

The second part is fine, the minute or so of pointless spinning is not.

[Matt Burkhardt (matthewboh)]

This also happens to me, but after much trail and error, if I wait5 seconds to key in my username and password, NM finds the right network and is quick!

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!