wifi password problem solved, or at least, worked around.
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:28:35 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Near the beginning of September, I reported suddenly being unable to
> connect to wifi in coffee shops. Around the same time, I has done a
> routine upgrade to my jessie system; I do this every week or two.
>
> Everything had been working fine before.
and is working again, though I now use a different wifi connectin tool.
> I am now unable to connect to any hot spot that has a password, even if
> I know the password. Luckily, my wifi at home is open -- no password
> required -- so I can still use wifi here.
>
> It was suggested to me that network-manager might be to blame and that I
> should try wifi-radar instead. No luck here, either. At home,
> everything's OK; elsewhere, no dice.
Installing wicd, and (uninstalling network-manager) worked.
It may or may not be relevant that network-manager uses systemd to do the
permissions check on the user requesting the wifi connection, nor do I
know whether this is something new.
-- hendrik
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