[hardy] network manager never remembers passphrase

[Barry Warsaw]

Binary package hint: network-manager

This bug is similar to bug 36651 but for Hardy. Network manager always prompts me for my WPA passphrase when I reboot and never seems to remember it.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Hi Barry
is this reproducible using a new user account under an up to date Hardy Heron system

thanks in advance.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Hi Basilio,

I was using a hidden SSID and just switched it back to broadcasting. I thought the problem had gone away but after this morning's reboot, I find the situation is worse. I don't even get the wireless applet in the dock and wireless is completely hosed on that machine. I'm going to try to do a wired update and reboot and see if that fixes things.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

I just tried hiding my ssid again, then rebooting. nm-applet asks for my keyring passphrase and then does appear to connect to my network now (although it was much slower). So I think the original problem is solved. nm-applet is crashing occasionally on me now, but I will open a new bug report for that if I continue to see it happening.

Thanks!

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Sorry, but this bug is definitely back. If my network is hidden, I am prompted for my passphrase after rebooting, and after entering my keyring pass phrase. If the network is broadcast, then nm remembers my passphrase and I get connected just find after entering my keyring passphrase.

Note that when I Edit Wireless networks, I see my network name and the bssids look fine, as does the Security pull down. Type is empty. The Passphrase is a huge hex string instead of the human readable passphrase.

[Jeremy Rickard (jrickard)]

I have the same problem, and it's consistently broken - running on up-to-date Ubuntu 8.04 with a new user. Every time I boot I have to delete the keyring password plus the wireless network entry, then re-enter the password anew... a bit irritating.

The only difference I can see to Barry Warsaw's reports above is that the essid is broadcast and I still have the problem.

I'm using an HP 2133 Mini-Lite and D-Link DSL-G624T router.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this is usually a driver issue. Do you still see this issue in hardy/intrepid? Which chipset/driver are you using. If you can still reproduce, please attach the complete syslog taken directly after reproducing this.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Yes, this is still happening. See attached syslog excerpt.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Ubuntu 8.10 ships network manager 0.7. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Jeremy Rickard (jrickard)]

Hi Martin,

No, it's no longer an issue since 8.10. I'm delighted with the new
Network Manager, both for this plus the integrated Vodafone Connect 3G
support.

Thanks,

Jeremy Rickard

Martin Mai wrote:
> We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Ubuntu 8.10 ships
> network manager 0.7. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks
> in advance

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you, Jeremy. So I am closing this one due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

It doesn't work for me in Intrepid, but I'm not going to spend any more effort on the problem. I'm just going to advertise me SSID and be done with it. Thanks for looking into it though and I'm glad the problem is solved for others.