[lubuntu-users] Some problems with 16.04 you might not know about

[E James]

On 26/09/16 05:41, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 09/25/2016 10:31 PM, E James wrote:
>> 2. Wireless connection. It took me several attempts, including a reboot, before I spotted the problem. I was typing my friend's wireless key as he read it to me and the system kept ignoring me - no connection, no error message. Finally I noticed that the connection manager was giving up and going into "offline" mode before I finished typing. Whose bright idea was that? I had to use copy and paste in order to enter the key sufficiently quickly.
> I noticed this problem with 16.04, in various Ubuntu 'flavors'.  It appears (to me) that it doesn't give you enough time to type in the wireless passphrase.
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> I worked around it (my passphrase is quite long) by typing the passphrase into a text editor, then selecting it and copying it, then initiating connection to wireless, then pasting it into the dialog box quickly, and hitting 'enter'.
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> This is a pain to do, but it let me work-around the problem.
> 

There's at least one programmer somewhere who knows how to change the time delay. It is currently about 20 seconds, but I can't think of any reason why it couldn't be 60 seconds or longer. I have found that computers can be extremely patient unless the programmer tells them not to be. I had one headless PC which didn't start up properly because it was waiting for me to respond to an error message.