"Connect to other wireless network" drops wireless and applet

[leememorin2004]

Binary package hint: firefox

Clicking on the wireless signal strength applet pops up a window with available networks. If you click on "Connect to other wireless network" the signal strength applet goes away, and the connection is lost. Since the applet is gone, you can't click on it to bring the popup back to reselect a wireless network that was working. Attempt to use the graphical network configuration screens are not successful. To reconnect to the network manually you need to enter a security scheme password, unsecured network is not an option, although it works when the connection is made automatically. Had to reboot to get back to a configuration to reconnect. Wireless device is an Airlink 101 USB stick. Terminal window ifconfig shows eth2 present when usb stick is inserted, but eth2 is not an option on the network screen menus to get it back.

From a Linux novice, thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 3 09:04:43 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux rose-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 05:28:27 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[d4t4min3r (nathan1465)]

im having this same issue, the wireless connection app has a few bugs that need to be worked out indeed

[leememorin2004 (leememorin2004)]

Thanks for the note, Nathan!
  Hope these get fixed soon.

d4t4min3r <email address hidden> wrote:
  im having this same issue, the wireless connection app has a few bugs
that need to be worked out indeed

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"Connect to other wireless network" drops wireless and applet
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Status in Source Package "firefox" in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: firefox

Clicking on the wireless signal strength applet pops up a window with available networks. If you click on "Connect to other wireless network" the signal strength applet goes away, and the connection is lost. Since the applet is gone, you can't click on it to bring the popup back to reselect a wireless network that was working. Attempt to use the graphical network configuration screens are not successful. To reconnect to the network manually you need to enter a security scheme password, unsecured network is not an option, although it works when the connection is made automatically. Had to reboot to get back to a configuration to reconnect. Wireless device is an Airlink 101 USB stick. Terminal window ifconfig shows eth2 present when usb stick is inserted, but eth2 is not an option on the network screen menus to get it back.

>From a Linux novice, thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 3 09:04:43 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux rose-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 05:28:27 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Sorry but Firefox-2 is getting near EOS and they wont be fixing anything but major issues security issues mainly. Please try to reproduce this with Firefox-3.0 if you can reproduce this bug please click on Help > Report a problem and file the bug that way. This does not mean that it wasn't already fixed.