Comment 65 for bug 348275

Following the advice people have given here, I installed linux-backports-generic yesterday and tried my wireless again. At first it didn't seem to help, but after I went into System Settings/Network and deleted all the duplicate copies of my network definitions, I was able to connect. So thanks to everyone who has contributed ideas on this.

I have to agree with Swami Petaramesh: the idea of the Network Manager plasmoid is nice, and it's reasonably pleasant to look at, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. Aside from the failure to connect (and the lack of feedback about failure to connect), the problems in its interaction with KWallet are really annoying. I don't want to have to memorize the security key for my network, but in effect that's what I have to do currently because it keeps prompting me for it even though it's been saved (or should have been) to the wallet. The duplication of network entries is infuriating too. Also, for one of my networks, I filled in the BSSID to connect to, but that never seems to be remembered.

Another problem that I've noticed is that if I change the number of wireless networks to display (in the plasmoid's settings), the size of the plasmoid's popup does not change, and there is no scroll bar. So increasing that number beyond 4 is basically useless.