[karmic] Wireless Once disconnected knetworkmanager prompts with empty password field

[Jithin Emmanuel]

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-networkmanagement

If for some reason I am disconnected from wireless, because of power failure , knetworkmanager prompts with an dialog to re enter password(WPA2 key) . But the problem is the filed will be empty. It should be pre populated with what ever value is already stored, like what is happening in network-manager-gnome (nm-applet).

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Is this behavior still present with the latest updates? Looking at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201990 this may be fixed.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

It's a different issue. Please see the screen shot. networkmanager knows the password and uses it for re-connection .If for some reason it could not connect then it prompts the user with the window in screen shot. But if I click cancel at this point and click on network icon once its up it reconnects.

Its just that when it prompts user it should have the passpharse populated. Its a different issue from the bug report. Its more of a usability. People will get confused when they are prompted with an empty passphrase dialogue wondering if the passpharse is wrong and they have to re enter it or not.

[Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987)]

It's a different issue. Please see the screen shot. networkmanager knows the password and uses it for re-connection .If for some reason it could not connect then it prompts the user with the window in screen shot. But if I click cancel at this point and click on network icon once its up it reconnects.

Its just that when it prompts user it should have the passpharse populated. Its a different issue from the bug report. Its more of a usability. People will get confused when they are prompted with an empty passphrase dialogue wondering if the passpharse is wrong and they have to re enter it or not.

[nukedathlonman (areginato)]

Possibly bug # 572777 is a duplicate of this bug. When i upgraded form 9.10 to 10.04 I was using knetworkmanager - on a wired connection I removed it and tried plasma-widget-networkmanagement and had the same result with the screen prompt. Don't have a syslog to attach because I'm using ME-II, but my syslog looks the same with either front end, and the png attached here is the exact same box that constantly pop's up when tryign to establish connection. On my end, it does have the password however as the network is known. But network manager attempts to connect and then times out, then I get the prompt again and the whole cycle starts all over.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 414324 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.