Running Ubuntu Studio (Xubuntu) 14.04 I had this or a very similar problem when I changed name and hid the SSID on my wifi.
nm-manager kept looking for the old SSID and would not connect to the hidden network - I had to connect manually on boot. When I told nm-manager to forget the old wifi the problem disappeared. My computer now connects to the hidden SSID and networking is OK. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316634 Title: Does not automatically reconnect to hidden WiFi network Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Running Lubuntu 14.04 32-bit on a Lenovo 3000 C200 laptop with an integrated Broadcom network adapter, I installed firmware-b43-installer and then successfully connected to my hidden (SSID not broadcast) WiFi net. But I see that it will not automatically reconnect. I don't have to re-enter the password, but I do have to click the nm-applet indicator, choose 'Connect to Hidden Wi-Fi Network' and then choose my already- defined connection, which indeed has been saved but not used to automatically reconnect. If I edit the connection, I see that on the General tab it is already set to 'Automatically connect to this network when it is available.' The only way I can get automatic reconnection is to enable SSID Broadcast. And a similar effect: If I am connected to the network while SSID Broadcast is in effect and then disable SSID Broadcast, network- manager immediately loses the connection. Someone suggested that network-manager would find the hidden network if I just waited, but after waiting 15 minutes it had still not connected. Dual-booting this same laptop with Windows Vista, I see that Windows knows how to automatically reconnect to the hidden net. I see that https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network- manager/+bug/295796 describes similar behavior, but that was reported back in 2008 and I'm imagining that there should be a separate report for the new release. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iw' CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Tue May 6 10:24:32 2014 IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-25 (10 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140416.2) IpRoute: default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.118 metric 9 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH Wired connection 1 ac7ba941-660f-40c5-9b1f-4d24accc6225 802-3-ethernet 1399385892 Tue 06 May 2014 10:18:12 AM EDT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 PRP d25473c0-98d8-4d93-ab37-3dd070bbd34b 802-11-wireless 1399386192 Tue 06 May 2014 10:23:12 AM EDT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1316634/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
