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oliparcol

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From: Paris

Registered: 2010-02-26

Posts: 38

networkmanager confuses weak wifi signal with wrong password

Hi,

I'm using networkmanager with gnome3 networkmanager-applet. I'm quite far away from the wifi AP so the signal is very weak and sometimes, I'm disconnected from the AP. The problem is that networkmanager thinks the key is wrong (after two or three unsuccessfull connection retries); a dialog asking for the WEP key pops-up, waits for a "correct" key and networkmanager doesn't try to reconnect to the wifi after this.

If I'm in front of the PC, this is not a problem because, I restart networkmanager, and normally it will connect to the wifi network correctly, but when I'm not in front of the PC, my computer will stay disconnected as long as I don't restart networkmanager, which is quite annoying.

Is there a way to say to networkmanager "my key is correct, i'm just far away from the AP so stop asking me the key and reconnect" ?

Thanks,
oliparcol

BasT

Member

Registered: 2010-08-28

Posts: 112

Re: networkmanager confuses weak wifi signal with wrong password

I have the same problem with kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement.
Edit: On a WPA2 Enterprise network.

Last edited by BasT (2011-07-05 15:22:09)

oliparcol

Member

From: Paris

Registered: 2010-02-26

Posts: 38

Re: networkmanager confuses weak wifi signal with wrong password

I just dumped networkmanager and will use directly wpa_supplicant...