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[Jason Gerard DeRose <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, and a little more detail on why I'm certain this is related to the
nvidia proprietary driver...

Part of our QA process after we image a system (before it's shipped to
the customer) is to test WiFi. Since we started shipping Utopic, we've
had 0% failure on systems with Intel graphics.

On hardware with an nvidia GPU (for which we always pre-install the
proprietary driver), we've had 100% failure when the system has an SSD
for the OS drive. When  the OS is on an HDD, it often works, but
sometimes there are failures there too.

You can work around this by going into "Edit connections" and entering
your password for the wifi there. But the proper password dialog fails
to pop-up when you just click on the wifi name in the indicator.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1388130

Title:
  Cannot connect to WiFi with Nvidia GPU using nvidia-331, SSD

Status in System76:
  Triaged
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  For some strange reason, we cannot connect to WiFi on hardware with a
  descrete Nvidia GPU (using the nvidia-331 driver) when the system is
  running off a fast SSD.

  Swap the SSD for a platter drive, and things work fine. Likewise, on
  Intel GPU systems, with either an SSD or a platter drive, WiFi works
  fine.

  The failure message is:

  """
  Connection activation failed.
  (1) Creation of object for path '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/2' failed in libnm-glib
  """

  See the attached screenshot.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: network-manager 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu28
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Oct 31 08:58:25 2014
  IfupdownConfig:
   # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  IpRoute:
   default via 10.17.76.1 dev eth0  proto static 
   10.17.76.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.17.76.193  metric 1
  NetworkManager.state:
   [main]
   NetworkingEnabled=true
   WirelessEnabled=true
   WWANEnabled=true
   WimaxEnabled=true
  SourcePackage: network-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  nmcli-con:
   NAME                      UUID                                   TYPE              TIMESTAMP    TIMESTAMP-REAL                     AUTOCONNECT   READONLY   DBUS-PATH                                 
   system76_5g               d7cafbd5-f1ef-422d-9ed4-4b3a9095b234   802-11-wireless   0            never                              yes           no         /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1
   Wired connection 1        c52af28c-07c5-4140-bf2c-3f0d236a05fc   802-3-ethernet    1414767492   Fri 31 Oct 2014 08:58:12 AM MDT    yes           no         /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0
  nmcli-dev:
   DEVICE     TYPE              STATE         DBUS-PATH                                  
   wlan0      802-11-wireless   disconnected  /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1  
   eth0       802-3-ethernet    connected     /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
  nmcli-nm:
   RUNNING         VERSION    STATE           NET-ENABLED   WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE   WWAN      
   running         0.9.8.8    connected       enabled       enabled         enabled    enabled         disabled

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