wireless network authentication password keeps changing to some default password

[ubuntujoe]

I have a large password for my wireless network authentication. After putting the password in and getting a valid connection to my wireless router I restarted the computer. When Ubuntu 8.10 came back up the wireless connection was disconnected. When I clicked "show password" I noticed that the password that is being shown is NOT be the password that I put in. This field needs to be able to successfully save and retain large password strings. The program I was using is NetworkManager Applet 0.7

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
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 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-5-generic x86_64

[mcgyver (lucien-midete)]

Same here. I have a Fon router. I have a 10 character password that keeps changing, so I cannot log in on my private network . Strange thing is that I have no problem login in on the public part of the same router. Seems there must be something wrong with the handling of the password.

[Jim Campbell (jwcampbell)]

Assigned bug to the network-manager-applet package.

[ViiJay (viijay)]

Hello guys,

I noticed the same problem in different Ubuntu Versions (8.04, 8.10, 9.04 Alpha 3). I have a Samsung R55 laptop and also using a FON router which has two different wireless networks. One public (open) network and one private (WPA2) network. When I connect the private one the first time I am prompted to insert my password which I do. The connection works flawless. After reboot it tries to login to the same network but it seems to can't get a connection.

I also can right away connect to the open and free wireless network but even when I try to re-insert the correct password it still doesn't work. When I check Applications --> Password And Encryption Keys I can see a saved entry for my private wireless network but it shows some kind of hex value of the password.

Sometimes it works for me when I just delete the stored key and then try to connect again with the valid password. Just besides within Windows XP which is installed in parallel it works all the time. So I can exclude the FON router to be the bad one.

Unfortunately I am not sure what about other networks which are not FON but I think I never got those kind of problems with them. Just can't test it right now.

Maybe this helps?

Thanks ViiJay.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Is this still a problem in Ubuntu 12.04?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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