Re: Automatic Connection not Working

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Thursday 26 of May 2011 12:15:35 Chris wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 23:15 +0100, Chris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 15:26 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 12:55 +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > When I start my netbook, my home network does not connect
> > > > automatically, I think this is because it is set to not broadcast. Is
> > > > there anyway to get around this problem, and if automatic connections
> > > > do not work for hidden networks why is the option still enabled?
> > > 
> > > NM should be storing the BSSID of the hidden network if you've ever
> > > successfully connected to it.  Then, NM uses that to match up the
> > > hidden scan result (the AP still shows up, just with a blank SSID)
> > > with the real SSID.  Can you run:
> > > 
> > > iwlist wlan0 scan
> > > 
> > > when this happens to you and report the scan result for your AP?  Also,
> > > does this connection have the "Available to all users" box checked in
> > > nm-connection-editor?
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > 
> > I can confirm that the connection has the available to all users box
> > ticked and I have attached the output of the command you included both
> > before I told it to connect and afterwards. I was however unsure what
> > you meant by AP?
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> Any progress on this issue, I was searching round the Internet and found
> this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448437 that seams
> to be the bug I have hit. I will try the workaround in the last comment
> and get back to you though.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris

The problem is that BSSIDs of networks, we connected to, was stored by user 
settings service (which is not part of NM 0.9 anymore). I've posted a patch 
implementing BSSIDs storing inside NM. See  
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707406

Jirka