NetworkManager unable to connect ot unencrypted university network with multiple WAPs of same ESSID.

[Chris Lasher]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Since about a month ago along the Jaunty development, NetworkManager lost the ability to connect to my university's unencrypted wireless network. This is a network that has many WAPs of the same ESSID on a variety of different channels, which seems to be NetworkManager's Achilles heel. (See also Bug #111502.) Disabling NetworkManager, I am able to manually connect to the network using iwconfig and dhclient.

This is on a MacBook 5.1 with Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 64-bit, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic, NetworkManager 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2. I am attaching the syslog information, output of lspci, and output of lsmod.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release the Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.