Failed 'add new connection' records a new connection anyway

[Charles Opondo]

When adding a new wireless connection, if an incorrect setting selection is made the connection fails to add, as expected, with a warning (e.g. incorrect authentication) - this is the expected behaviour. However, the connection name gets saved under Settings > WiFi > Previous networks. This means if you, say, enter an incorrect password three times when trying to add a connection but get it right the fourth time, there will be four entries of the network you were trying to add, each suffixed by a number. The consequence is that in future the device fails to connect to that network when it is in range. Current solution is to forget all entries of the network and add it again (and get all settings right on the first try).

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

sounds similar to lp:1607684 but in that case the connection was successful.
How is your AP configured?

Where do you see that warning displayed, in my case I just get re-prompted.

[Charles Opondo (charlesopondo)]

It is similar in a sense. Normally I would not need to select the network manually; it should connect to the network automatically whenever it is in range. I suspect that it didn't because there were already multiple entries of that network saved (conflict?), and in a bit to connect I selected the network again manually and each time it failed while still saving a new entry in the network list.

Once I deleted all entries and created a new single entry, it connected normally.

The AP is secured with WPA2-Enterprise PEAP/MSCHAPv2.

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

System Settings is firing-and-forgetting any network created from the “Other network…” dialog. Not sure there's anything network-manager can do here. System Settings should, upon error, allow the user to change the failed network connection, not create a brand new one.

Thanks for reporting this.