Wireless WEP connection ask for password when the network goes down and returns

[Santiago Erquicia]

I have a wireless WEP connection that from time to time goes down. When it comes up after being down for a few minutes, network manager asks me again for the WEP password even if it was saved in the keyring.

I think this is because it assumes that the problem is with the password provided. At least it should bring me the previous password already filled in so I can just press OK to try to connect again.

Let me know if you need more information.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Which network card driver are you using?

Are there any other networks nearby? (Provide output of "sudo iwlist scan")

[Santiago Erquicia (santiago-erquicia-gmail)]

My wifi card is a ipw2200.

The output of that command is:

eth1 Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:4E:B1:8D
                    ESSID:"honeyweiss"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:1
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality=33/100 Signal level=-80 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 60ms ago
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:0F:66:0A:AA:BF
                    ESSID:"sysone"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality=33/100 Signal level=-80 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 133ms ago
          Cell 03 - Address: 00:0A:73:FE:10:0A
                    ESSID:"liniado"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:9
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality=33/100 Signal level=-80 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 39ms ago

This is not the only place where I has this problem though. The main problem was when I was at a place where the connection got dropped quite frequently by the router.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This may be fixed by today's upload of network-manager (0ubuntu4), if you could try that and see if you still have the problem, that'd be great

[Santiago Erquicia (santiago-erquicia-gmail)]

I tried again at a place with the router problem and this doesn't happen anymore. I guess you can close the bug.

Thanks