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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | KDE Network Manager does not connect to WLAN with hidden ESSID | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 | Reporter: | Forgotten User 0EFFxZV8cC <forgotten_0EFFxZV8cC> |
| Component: | KDE4 Applications | Assignee: | E-mail List <kde-maintainers> |
| Status: | VERIFIED FIXED | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Major | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | bill_wayson, doerges, forgotten_DV81ZEWZkN, spiller |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 11.4 | ||
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| Found By: | Beta-Customer | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Forgotten User 0EFFxZV8cC
2011-03-28 00:23:54 UTC
This problem existed for me after installing openSUSE 11.3. I assume it still exists in 11.4, but I upgraded. A (not ideal) workaround is to temporarily expose your WLAN's ESSID, then set up the connection in Network Manager. Once the setup is complete, you can hide the ESSID again. The connection should continue to appear and work in NM -- it does for me. By the way, this issue did not exist using Ubuntu 10.4 and Gnome via dual booting on the very same laptop. ...temporarily expose ... NOT in real world (where you use AP set up by other people)! We need a fix or a new gui interface. Sad that all action is just wait for KDE ... (until when? 11.5?) The problem still exists in 12.1. Installed packages are the default ones from the distribution: --- snip --- $ rpm -qa | egrep 'kernel-d|NetworkM' | sort NetworkManager-0.9.1.90-4.8.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-kde4-libs-0.9.1+0.9.0-1.6.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-kde4-libs-lang-0.9.1+0.9.0-1.6.1.noarch NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.0-2.1.2.x86_64 NetworkManager-openvpn-kde4-0.9.1+0.9.0-1.6.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-openvpn-lang-0.9.0-2.1.2.noarch NetworkManager-pptp-0.9.0-3.1.2.x86_64 NetworkManager-pptp-kde4-0.9.1+0.9.0-1.6.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-pptp-lang-0.9.0-3.1.2.noarch NetworkManager-vpnc-0.9.0-2.1.2.x86_64 NetworkManager-vpnc-kde4-0.9.1+0.9.0-1.6.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-vpnc-lang-0.9.0-2.1.2.noarch kernel-default-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64 kernel-desktop-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64 kernel-desktop-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64 kernel-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.noarch --- snap --- After having added/configured the connection through the nm-applet, no connection is actually made. If I manually do --- snip --- iwlist wlan0 scan essid <HIDDENSSID> --- snap --- the connection does appear in the nm-applet and can be used. This appears to be related to bug 541009 and to bug 689245. Closing, 11.4 reached EOL, if you can reproduce with >= 12.1 open a new BR. |