Comment 3 for bug 292475

I too had this issue with WPA2 on 3 different adapters ... one -N and 2 -G adapters, and one is a Cisco -G. so ... I read this and went to sit next to the AP andyes it worked immediately. 1) the bug that displays the passphrase as a long GUID-like thing, and 2) I believe this is a bug in 8.10 ... Windows sees my wireless networks fine from where I sit in my living room, but 8.10 cannot see it unless I am in the same room!! Additionally, let me just take this opportunity toexpress my utmost disdain for the Inspiron ze2000's Broadcom 4318 or whatever it is, it SUCKS ... even in Windows, the drivers are nonexistent, and when I installedXP it was unable to find a driver. When I downloaded the 2004-dated (!!) driver from Dell's site, it did not make the card work (yes the blue light came on) but it DID do something really bad to my wireless network stack, because from then-on no matter what I did (uninstalled it also and added other NICs) networking was unusably unreliable, as in fast one sec and the next unreachable despite 100% signal. In Windows I mean .. because in Linux, the card never did work.

I must say, clipping NIC roms and creating drivers may be fun for some ... but for me, it is a real drag. I set the laptop by the AP and with full strength, 8.10 was able to run a very nice full download of updates .... whyu does it not do this automatically when the network goes active?

Clearly I am a Windows veteran (server, was MS test etc) ... so I apologise if I am just an ignorant Windie :)