On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:17:58PM -0000, William Grant wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: network-manager
> 
> All Victorian schools use a 802.11x wireless authentication system. It
> uses Dynamic WEP, and in order to connect with NM we need to force it to
> use WPA Enterprise with the various settings by selecting `Connect to
> Other Wireless Network...' Ideally it would allow selection of WPA
> Enterprise even if it didn't detect it as a WPA network, but that's
> another bug.
> 
> It works fine when you force it connect and enter all the details, and
> it saves them all to gconf correctly. However, automatic reconnection
> fails, with completion of stage 2 followed by an infinite loop of
> `old_dev has_link? 1' and `old_dev && new_dev!!' every 5 seconds. I
> guess this is probably because it continues to detect it as a WEP-only
> network, and gets thoroughly confused when it sees WPA details.
> 
> All this is rather inconvenient, as I have to manually enter the details
> and select certificates every time I wish to connect.
> 

What kind of network card/chipset are you using? What driver is
loaded? Do you know?

 - Alexander

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NM loops indefinitely with `old_dev has_link? 1' when connecting to one 
particular network
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128116
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