Wellington testers + Activities vs 8.2-759

[Martin Langhoff]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:39 PM, NoiseEHC <NoiseEHC at freemail.hu> wrote:
>>  - Associating to an AP using WPA is extremely unreliable. Some
>> laptops do, some after a few tries, some never. Likely to be the
>> timing bug that has been discussed before.
>
> There is another bug somewhere in the network stack. With my Belkin PreN
> router (MIMO chpset), every connection attempt fails which is initiated
> automatically (asks for a password which almost never works). When I wait
> until the XO gives up connecting and then click on the AP, it succeeds 100%
> (gets the password from networks.cfg). It looks like a big fat race
> condition to me, but unfortunately I do not even know where to start looking
> at the source so I will not fix it that is sure.

Alastair mentioned seeing something similar with his AP at home,
letting it time out or hitting cancel.

Someone with deep NM fu needs to exercise these codepaths and look at
WTF is in the state machine when it's happening...



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