Comment 32 for bug 572777

I have been chasing this problem since January. have tried various network manager clients, tried changing drivers for bcm4322 (in a Dell Mini 10v) and nothing worked. The symptom was that it would be very erratic about connecting to the access point. It would take, oh five minutes or so before the connection would come up in knetworkmanager, and then once in a while it would lose it. Sometimes, it would simply never associate (for hours or days) then it would start working again for hours or days. All this with equipment that worked without issues under 9.10, and the access point works fine with other laptops.

Tried Nils' recipe to install 0.6.10 wpa_supplicant, and that broke nm completely until I removed the "-s"
from /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service as suggested by spanna.

Now connects instantaneously afaict. As the problem is intermittent, will continue to test for a week or two, but this does look like it fixes what was wrong.

Thanks to Nils and spanna!

I think this bug should be rated high priority because:
   -- I think this is a very common configuration.
   -- this result is that wireless is "broken" (for anyone using WPA with certain hw.)
   -- while I managed to do this fix, it is pretty involved for most people. I think most people would just give up and switch OS. ( I was close to reverting to 9.10 )

will report back to confirm fixedness.