{"id":330,"date":"2011-12-28T00:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-12-28T20:43:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:43:03","slug":"network-manager-0-9-2-wpa-password-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/2011\/12\/network-manager-0-9-2-wpa-password-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Network-Manager 0.9.2 WiFi password issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've noticed a few significant issues with Network Manager on GNOME 3.2, when connecting to WiFi networks that require password (e.g. WPA, EAP). Trying to find existing bug reports, I've found quite a mess: multiple bug reports, both downstream (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora) and upstream (GNOME bugzilla).<\/p>\n

I suspect many of these bugs are related to the same root cause (or max. 2-3 root causes). In order to try and make sense of this, I tried to categorize the bugs I've found. I hope it'll help to gather more info to resolve the bugs, and reject dups.<\/p>\n

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  1. NM (gnome applet?) forgets passwords<\/strong>:<\/li>\n
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    1. GNOME Bugzilla: [666465], <\/a>[665431]<\/a>, [665503]<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Debian BTS: [651445]<\/a>, [646018]<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Ubuntu BTS: [904666]<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Mint forum post<\/a> with a workaround<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    5. NM takes too long to re-connect<\/strong> after resume (possibly problem in popping up the enter-password dialog box):<\/li>\n
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      1. GNOME: [664289]<\/a>,<\/li>\n
      2. Debian: [651358]<\/a>, [653076]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      3. NM-gnome double password dialog box case<\/strong>:<\/li>\n
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        1. GNOME: [661208]<\/a>, [665503]<\/a> - mentioned in 1st comment,<\/li>\n
        2. Debian: [651097]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

          I'll try to update this post when new info arrives, please add your comments.<\/p>\n

          Generally speaking, I think that FOSS community lacks some \"dirty-work\" QA workforce for bug scrubbing, such as what I'm trying to do here. I don't even know how to name this non-coding activity. Thoughts? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

          Update1: <\/strong>This Linux Mint forum post<\/a> suggests that only the applet \"forgets\" passwords.<\/p>\n


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