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network-manager package

It takes ages to connect to WLAN, constantly asking for password

Bug #155713 reported by Sergey V. Udaltsov
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Bug Description

When I login to the gnome session, nm applet starts connecting (with this "rolling" icon). It takes ages to connect. It asks for WEP key many times - gives no error, just (nearly) eternal loop: "ask for key" - "rolling icon" - "ask for key" ... Sometimes it manages to connect (after many many attempts). It definitely sees my network (I see it in the list of available WLANs).

The kernel module is Intel's ipw3945. ipw3945d loads without errors

Vista on the same machine connects without any problem.

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hafri44 (hj-friedl) wrote :

Same over here. Travelmate 291LCi - ipw 2200 - highly frustrating - says a Ubuntu Newbie - Is there hope in (Linux) life?

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Paul Dufresne (paulduf) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Please give the output of "dpkg -l|grep network-manger".

You may want to read:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager
and attach your /tmp/syslog or at least attach /var/log/syslog to this bug report.

Changed in network-manager:
assignee: nobody → dufresnep
status: New → Incomplete
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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

$ dpkg -l|grep network-manager
ii network-manager 0.6.5-0ubuntu16 network management framework daemon
ii network-manager-gnome 0.6.5-0ubuntu10 network management framework (GNOME frontend)
ii network-manager-openvpn 0.3.2svn2342-1ubuntu4 network management framework (OpenVPN plugin)
ii network-manager-pptp 0.6.5+svnhead2574-0ubuntu1 network management framework (PPTP plugin)

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Paul Dufresne (paulduf) wrote :

Thanks for that information.

Please, reboot, wait some time for it to try to connect (about 5 or 7 mins).
Then attach to this bug the file /var/log/syslog

Thanks in advance.

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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

After the latest kernel updates this issue is very difficult to reproduce. I'll keep an eye on it though. Once I see it again - I'll provide the info.

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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote :

I'm closing this report. Please reopen it if you still have this issue with latest Ubuntu release. Thanks

Changed in network-manager:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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