Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

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On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 18:28, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There appears to be another bug (#727857) that's caused by that policykit.
>  At the moment, I can't connect via WiFi, because nm is waiting for
> authorization.  The access point is working properly and I can connect to
> it, if I reboot into Windows 7.  Further, when managing connections and root
> password is needed, the password box is usually hidden.

I came across this during the Beta cycles... it's annoying.  It seems
to happen mainly when initially setting up the connection.. I had to
set up the connection at least 3 times in a row before it would "take"
so to speak.. after it worked fine.  I just did a clean install on my
laptop and it's still there on the final 12.1 release.. it's a pretty
significant bug too :-(  I pity the poor new user who runs into this
one.  Basically, WiFi won't work for them.

The work around, is to force the network manager to disconenct, then
edit the connection - you will see that it has forgotten the WiFi
password.  Enter it and save then try reconnecting... it might timeout
again... if it does disconnect/break the connect attempt, and Edit the
connection again.. chances are it's forgotten the WiFi password
again... I've had to repeat thsi up to 3 times before the WiFi
password was actually stored...

Next thing is... I could have sworn I found the bug report on exactly
this, but tonight... I can't find it anywhere.

C.
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