Re: Network Manager patched on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 15:33 -0600, Trey Nolen wrote:
> My big issue in Karmic is that I can't join "hidden" networks - even
> if I know the SSID and the passphrase.  This seems to be a regression
> from the earlier versions of Ubuntu.

I just put together http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/Debugging for
this sort of thing.  Any chance you can follow the steps there?
Especially the information in "A good bug report..." at the top, then
the bits below about hidden ssids with iwlist and such.

Thanks,
Dan

> I have seen reports of it on Launchpad, but so far the importance of
> the issue is "undetermined".  I think it is fairly critical myself,
> but I don't get to vote. :-)
> 
> 
> Trey Nolen
> 
> 
> > 
> > I have another one for Karmic, and I can do that as well. I've noticed
> > that there does not seem to be any way to get it to pay any attention to
> > an Ad-Hoc network. When I'm in range, the network appears in the
> > knetworkmanager applet, but if I click on it, nothing happens (much the
> > same as a hidden network did in a case we'd discussed in the past). I'm
> > not sure what the debug info would say, but it should be interesting to
> > find out. It looks like absolutely nothing happens at all.
> > 
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