Three instances of my wireless network

[Peter T Hayward]

Hardware: Sony Vaio fs115b, 512MB, Intel 915GMA, Intel HDA, Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG, Intel 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE
Software: Kubuntu 9.04, Alpha 3 + updates to date
KnetworkManager v1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu8

After a boot from cold my wireless network is found and I am logged on properly (after kwallet password). However, when I left click the knetworkmanager icon in the tray I see three instances of my wireless network showing. The display shows me connected to one, at the top, but there are two other ones, showing the same name and signal (to noise?) level, that seem to be unnecessary. If I open Manage Connections I can see two entries, the same connection name (my network) but with dates 2 days ago (when I last used the computer) and 10 days ago. This seems to account for the three instances, when you add my current connection.
I have booted the computer several times over 10 days so it is not that I get a new instance every reboot.
Is this connected with updates, recent updates not clearing old connection instances before creating new ones?

[Peter T Hayward (energonic)]

After latest update today my Knetworkmanager display has changed. I can see one instance of my wireless access point (and two others near me). On interface eth1 it says 'Connected' and on the next line there is 'No active connection'. This is confusing to see.
I am actually connected.
One other point; the title 'VPN Connections' is rendered on top of the last entry in the list of detected Access points. This looks a bit careless.
In 'Manage Network Connections' window there are two old entries for last Wednesday, perhaps they should be cleared?

[Peter T Hayward (energonic)]

Continuing from my previous post, I have found a way to change the line that says 'No active connection'
If I left-click on the network manager tray icon I get a list of access points. I click my own AP and in the resulting 'Add network connection' dialog window I enter my WPA-PSK password (the entry box is blank, despite the fact I am already connected) and then tick the 'Connect Automatically' box (which initially shows unticked).
The existing connection is closed and a new one started. This time the tray pop-up box shows the same list of APs but the actual connection to my AP now shows the text 'Signal Strength: 58%' to the left of the signal bar. This used to show 'No active connection', but now it looks right.
This would be fine, but I have to do this procedure after every log in. It seems that an automatic connection is actually made at log in but that the network manager
does not recognise it properly until it has been made to go through its dialogs.
Is this something to do with passwords? The password is actually used automatically, probably by wpa_supplicant, but the dialog does not seem to have access to it.

[Peter T Hayward (energonic)]

After kubuntu update on 5 April the network manager shows one instance of my network and still automatically connects and shows 'No active connection'. If I want to see the signal strength I still have to go through a manual rejoin of the network. A rather cosmetic issue but no sign of a fix?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Kubuntu better. The KDE3 version of KNetworkManager has been discontinued by its original authors. This unfortunately means that there will be no more bugfix releases, and updates in general will be limited to those fixing security flaws.

While we cannot fix your bug, the good news is that the applet has been totally rewritten for KDE4 in the upcoming Kubuntu 9.10 release. There is a good chance that this bug is no longer an issue with the new applet. If you find any similar or new issues with the applet included in Kubuntu 9.10, we would politely ask you to file them as new bugs against the "plasma-widget-networkmanagement" package.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.