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 -- NM loops indefinitely with `old_dev has_link? 1' when connecting to one particular network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128116 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
