wireless scan is lagging
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
The Ubuntu 8.10 network manager's wireless scan is lagging. It was fine in 8.04
Here's what happens:
I'm in location A, with a bunch of wireless networks, and I attach to one of them. I do my stuff, etc. etc. After a while I put my laptop into suspend mode and go to location B, on the other side of town. I wake my laptop there and... it attempt to connect to the previous wireless network. The new networks are added to the list, but the old ones are kept around for a while as well, with strong signal strengths too.
This results in a dialog windows asking me for the right wireless passphrase for a non-existent wireless network. I have to either be fast enough and select a proper access point before the dialog shows up, or cancel it and select the proper network then. And I need to know what the proper network is.
After a while, the old networks go away, but why don't they go away as soon as I suspend or wake the computer? They used to in 8.04
Bug still present in Jaunty.
Supposedly the fix exists somewhere upstream: http:// blogs.gnome. org/dcbw/ 2009/02/ 26/suspendresum e-vs-networkman ager/