Re: Reboot for password to work

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 09:18 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'm on Ubunut 9.10 / network-manager-gnome -
> 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
> Thinkpad T60  - 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications
> Inc. AR5418 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I use wireless at one location where the WPA password changes weekly.
> What happens is I boot the laptop then login and then nm-applet spins
> for a while then asks for the password.  I enter the password and the
> process repeats.  I can repeat that process a number of times but it
> never connects.

I may have fixed a bug after that date in nm-applet that ensured that
the new password you entered was really updated.  applet commit
39bf65351dd8d8dc6a5740ff0644999efddad049 seems relevant here, which
landed on 2009-10-19.

Dan

> 
> Then I reboot and it connects fine with the new password (that I
> entered before rebooting).  That is, it reboots and connects w/o
> asking for the password.
> 
> 
> Anyone experience something like this?  It's odd that I have to reboot
> for it to work. But, I'm also wondering why it takes so long before it
> determines that the password it is attempting in the first place is
> incorrect.  It's a pretty long wait.
> 
> 
> My syslog is pretty noisy.  Here it is from when I booted today.
>  http://hank.org/syslog.txt  I'm connecting to the "Rooz" airport.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moseley
> moseley hank org
> 
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