Wireless setup with Ubuntu

[Shannon McMackin]

On 04/01/2009 11:47 PM, Raseel Bhagat wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:klarsen1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     The only successful wireless I have ever had is with my 8.10 on my
>     laptop. Even this is quite hard to get right because there are now 3
>     strong wireless signals in my room.
>
>     What happens first when you boot up is a panel that will not go away
>     until I give it my password.
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> The Keyring Manager can be quite irritating, but it works quite
> seamlessly once you have all the correct passwords in it.
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>     Then the network-manager tries to connect
>     to the first strong wireless but of course it fails because we have the
>     wrong password.
>
>     After a while it quits and then tries the next strong wireless signal
>     with the same wrong password. Panels with the information for each
>     wireless signal will be displayed and all I can do is click on "OK" or
>     "Cancel". Or I can put a different password in.
>
>     Now it just quits sending panels and I can click on the two tiny
>     computers and get a list of the wireless signals I am receiving. This is
>     VERY important! On Ubuntu that are not going to be able to use wireless,
>     you click on the computers and you see no wireless listed. This bodes
>     poor for that system.
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> This is strange. My NetworkManager NEVER tried connecting to each and
> every SSID on it's own.
> I work in a Networking company and there are about 50 SSIDs in my room
> alone. It NM did that for every SSID, I would have been
> complaining long back.
>
> Having said that, since I do a lot of Wifi unit testing, I know that
> NM's wireless aspect is not too great.
> I prefer wicd to NM, but then if you use VPN (Ipsec and PPTP) as much
> frequently, you will find that NM rules !!
>
> Thanks,
> Raseel
>
I've only seen NM automatically connect to open APs and any APs that 
you've associated with and stored a password.