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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-western">F16, Gnome3.
(sent also to gnome NM list)<br>
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I am at a friend's house in Amsterdam trying to get connect to his
wireless and it is failing, so this message SHOULD go out when I
get to the KLM lounge tommorrow (that was working friday)...
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A major defiency is the loss of deleting SSID configurations.
There is no 'delete' feature anymore in the Network Settings
panel.
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There is a network near here that has the same SSID as at another
friends (let's call it NETGEAR), but this one has a different
password that I do not know. Doesn't matter, NM keeps trying to
connect and asks me for a different password when it fails. I have
no way (or found no way), to delete or even deactivate this SSID
from NM. So it keeps trying and trying.
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Connection to my friend's wireless SEEMs to be a DHCP problem. I
have this hunch by watching /var/log/messages; this 'new' network
manager does not tell me why it is failing. Now I shoud preface
the next part with I work in 802.11 standards. Right now I am
active in 802.11ai (FIA), so I KNOW the .11 state machine. Is the
problem in initial connection (AUTH,ASSOC); note it is possible to
be receiving BEACONs, but be too far to actually ASSOCIATE with an
AP. The user should be told the problem is here. Or is it a bad
password; well that is the guess when it presents the dialog for
the password but i KNOW the password is correct. Oh, perhaps the
problem is DHCPv4 (or v6?) and since there is no way to tell the
user to fix the DHCP allocation in the router, the poor user gets
asked to try a different password?
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You KNOW what the failure is. PLEASE give some information as to
which step things stop at. Plus change the icon from that strange
... thing to something showing trying and trying what? (ASSOC,
SECURE, ADDRESS). Also be so informed that when 11ai gets done
(you do have 2 years) we are going to do all this in a couple/few
roundtrips. My proposal does the whole shabang in 2. The AUTH
starts the securing and the ASSOC finishes the securing and does
the addressing, though there are times where addressing extends
the ASSOC for another roundtrip.
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Now back to feature loss over Gnome2 NM....
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I cannot turn off wireless from the NM pulldown if it is currently
trying (and really failing) to connect. I have to open the
Network Settings dialog and turn off wireless there. While
attempting to connect the on/off switch is replaced with the text
'connecting'. I know that, I want to stop it trying to connect,
and the only way to do that is turn the wireless off.
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Does turning NM off turn off the wireless radio? I have a Lenovo
x120 and it does not have a wireless radio switch and on
airplanes, I like to turn off my radio and save battery. All I
can do is turn off NM, but I have no way of knowing WHAT is being
turned off!
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Enough challenges for tonight. Tomorrow it is off to the airport
and hopefully connectivity there on my way to the IETF meeting.
(yes I am a standards guy).
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