[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#735601: network-manager-gnome: Wifi often disconnects or reconnects (several times an hour).

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Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.8.4-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I marked this bug important is it is the most frustrating but by far on debian.
I had it in wheezy and upgraded to jessie in the hope it would be fixed but it
is present here too. In a lot of universities use something called resnet to
connect devices to the internet, through quite complex security. It is known to
be a bit problematic and unreliable in general but my experience has been worse
than most. On the initial sign up you have to go onto 'wifi-setup' as one of
the wifi options offered, download a key, log in etc, and then select the
network 'eduroam' to use after that. It was ok setting up, but after that,
every time I switch on it has gone back to 'wifi-setup' and I have to put it
back to 'eduroam' and am prompted for a password (which it has luckily started
to remember). Even more annoying, when I am using the computer it sometimes
disconnects, and to reconnect I have to change to another network and back
again, which sometimes doesn't work properly and I have to do it again. Whilst
some of it is an issue with eduroam, I know people using linux have found this
an issue more so that other operating systems, which tend to just occasionally
go down, and reconnect as soon as the network is available again. I wonder if
it has anything related to the bug https://help.riseup.net/en/openvpn-
linux#vpnautoconnect about auto-connecting. This seriously impairs my ability
to use the internet reliably.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.6.18-2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.18.0-1
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme                             3.10.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.17-97
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.6.18-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.100.2-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.36.4-1
ii  libgnome-bluetooth11                         3.8.1-2
ii  libgnome-keyring0                            3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.8.6-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1                              0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-glib4                                  0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-gtk0                                   0.9.8.4-1
ii  libnm-util2                                  0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.15-2
ii  network-manager                              0.9.8.0-5
ii  policykit-1-gnome                            0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-bluetooth                 3.8.1-2
ii  gnome-keyring                   3.8.2-2
ii  iso-codes                       3.50-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info  20130915-1
ii  notification-daemon             0.7.6-1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  <none>
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      <none>
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

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