David Abrahams wrote: > Oh, here's some additional data: > Each time I have rebooted with an ethernet cable attached and then > disconnected the cable, it asked me for my keyring password almost > immediately and connects to the network in a few seconds. I think raw > wpa_supplicant is faster, but it was close. > > On the first reboot: > > I reconnected the cable and it connected back to the wired network > > I disconected the cable and it tried to connect to the wireless > network, but failed. I couldn't get it to connect wirelessly > thereafter, even by explicitly choosing the network > > On the second reboot: > > I reconnected the cable and it connected back to the wired network > > I disconected the cable (possibly slightly more quickly this time) > and it apparently failed to notice. The icon in the notification > area still showed me connected to the wired network. I couldn't get > it to connect wirelessly thereafter, even by explicitly choosing the > network, *AND* I couldn't get it to notice the wire being removed > either. > > On the third reboot, I started with no network cable connected, but > the experience was the same as with the first reboot, starting where I > disconnected the cable. > > So this _is_ different from the old version of NetworkManager in that > it's more consistent. The old version would often connect repeatedly > if you were willing to wait long enough. In this version, the > timeouts seem to be shorter. > > This is actually good since it is something you can repeat, can you run Network Manager in debug mode again and post the outputs when you go through the steps you went through above?
> Also, there's a new checkbox in the wireless network config, "fallback > on this network." What does that mean? > > I don't know but I will try and grab the version in CVS tonight and find out unless Dan or Robert can answer this. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
