GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 665503
Password prompts for disappearing and reappearing wifi networks
Last modified: 2013-01-25 01:40:23 UTC
It seems that when a wireless network disappears (because it is out of range or the emitter has been turned off) and later reappears, NM will prompt for a password again, even though it already knows the password. One way to reproduce it on my end is this: 1. Connect and authenticate the computer to my WPA2 AES network 2. Shutdown the router (mine stops emitting at certain hours of the night) 3. Keep the computer running 4. (Start emitting the wireless network again?) 5. Go to the computer, notice that it prompts you for the wifi password, even though it already what it is.
Same here, upon switching the router's WLAN off and on again, I first get a black gnome-shell dialog with an empty password, when I cancel this one i get the gtk+ dialog with the password filled in.
I forgot the mention: I'm using Fedora 16.
If there is a problem connecting to the wifi, NM will first ask for my admin password, then the wifi password. When it fails to connect again, it will keep asking. I think the behavior should be like Android: remember the password, if the connection fails ask to retry without prompting for ANY passwords. My system becomes unusable when it can't connect to the wifi because no matter how many times I enter the passwords, dialog boxes keep popping up. I usually have to log out or reboot. System: Debian Testing
There has been a fix incorporated lately: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=fe27bb888b375810c001b5c460a58d948177232e Would you mind trying >= 0.9.6-rc1
The above git commit link is bad. What was the change that was made?
Sorry for the bad link. The right one is this: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=30fe3e18766367d159dfb16d7ca5559d7dc58b9a In addition there were several other improvements to the wifi code.
*** Bug 676278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***