#5848 HIGH Update.: losing WLAN circle after failing to connect to anything

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#5848: losing WLAN circle after failing to connect to anything
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  Reporter:  chihyu  |       Owner:  marco   
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  reopened
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Update.1
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:          
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  release?
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:          
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Comment(by carrano):

 Replying to [comment:26 wad]:
 > Ricardo, we were not seeing this problem 100% with build 703.  It sounds
 like you are stating that with a more recent build you are never getting
 to simple mesh if there is anything in networks.cfg.

 Not exactly. What I am saying is that if you fail to associate to the AP
 listed in networks.cfg you won't get to simple mesh. In my test bed of
 only 10 XOs, the only way I can make the association to fail is to change
 the configuration or turn off the AP.

 >
 > This is new behavior, because we had many more laptops go to simple mesh
 than lose their network completely (this bug), when they failed to
 associate with a school mesh or AP, and had previously been associated
 with an AP.

 In my tests, this happens the same with 703 or 706.

 >
 >
 > I agree completely that this is NetworkManager, and had isolated it to
 one of two code paths, but couldn't find any glaring errors.

 My guess is that the "state machine" does not have a fallback to simple
 mesh in case it cannot connect to the APs listed in networks.cfg.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5848#comment:27>
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