network manager tries to connect to arbitrary network

forgot to mention: I use Ubuntu Gutsy

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please follow the instructions at the Capture Log portion of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager and add your '/var/log/syslog' file as an attachment to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

Ok I can do it when I pick up my laptop from service :)

Now I see I forgot mention one more thing: My own network is hidden - and the problem happens when some other non-hidden network appears in vicinity.

It seems that this problem in the form described in the topic (connecting to arbitrary network) vanished - maybe it was fixed in some update.

Network manager is still buggy though. I have WPA Personal wireless network set up. When SSID braodcasting is enabled, everything works correctly, I never face problems - after booting the system it connects immediately.

But when SSID broadcasting is disabled, from time to time I cannot connect at all. I see the message "trying to connect to network xxx" all the time, and nothing happens, or sometimes it asks about password repeatedly, but still cannot connect. What's more, when I try to switch to other network on the list (e.g. select network yyy), after hovering over network manager icon, I still see message "trying to connect to network xxx".
This is very annoying, and because of those troubles I had to enabled SSID broadcasting again.

Hi there
do you still experience this issue with the current version of the application?, could you please try to reproduce this using the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron.

Thanks in advance

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Thanks again!

Sorry, I did not get notification about your previous comment.
It would be rather hard to reproduce it on live CD, because as i already mentioned, it happens only from time to time, say twice a week. I won't work on live CD so long :)
Currently I have SSID braodcasting enabled, so i cannot say if it is ok or not. I will wait a few days for Hardy realease, then upgrade, and try to disable SSID broadcasting and see how it works. If there are any issues then, I let you know.

I tried to do the test on my current environment (Hardy - but with kernel from previous version, because kernel from Hardy is not usable - see bug #12637).
I have now WAP Personal netowork, with MAC filtering, and with enabled SSID bradcasting. Ubuntu connects to it almost immediately after booting up.
So I disabled SSID braodcasting for testing. Network Manager did the same as previously - got lost for about 10 minutes. During this time it asked me about 4 times for the password. I typed the passwork each time, waiting, waiting, waiting, again prompt for password, waiting...... and after about 10 minutes finally it connects.
So it is still far from normal "usable" quality.
However, second laptop (Lenovo, with WinXP) was not able to connect at all to that network, so I was forced to enable SSID back. So at least it is better than Windows...