Comment 6 for bug 490107

I have the same network manager issue (I think it's network manager, it could be a problem with wpa_supplicant, or the keyrings or something else).

I'm on Karmic, and my wireless driver is iwl3945 (Dell Latitude D820 intel wireless).

I install network manager and it connects for a few reboots. Randomly, it stops logging me into the wireless router (WPA2-PSK), and repeatedly prompts me for a password. I enter the password, but it doesn't connect.

At one point, I un-installed network manager and wpa_supplicant and re-installed it all, and it functioned for a few reboots again and then resumed the same password-prompting behaviour.

Does anyone have a fix for this, or any suggestions as to how to figure out what's going on?

I can't understand why network manager (if the problem is indeed with network manager) has been so buggy for so long, when the rest of the software for Ubuntu is so stable. Networking is the most critical part of any installation. If you can't connect to a network, you can't update any other part of the system.

Is it not being prioritised? Is it not glamourous enough to work on? Is it because the developers are at the mercy of proprietary wireless drivers?

I think I'm going back to wpagui if no one has any ideas (which also lost my settings, but at least would connect correctly if they were re-entered).

-CB