RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.
Bug 1545713 - Request periodic scans while WiFi list is open
Summary: Request periodic scans while WiFi list is open
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: control-center
Version: 7.5
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Desktop QE
Jana Heves
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-02-15 14:14 UTC by Oliver Ilian
Modified: 2018-05-17 14:39 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: control-center-3.26.2-8.el7
Doc Type: Known Issue
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2018-04-10 13:11:47 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
GNOME Bugzilla 767918 0 None None None 2018-02-20 12:36:19 UTC
GNOME Bugzilla 793238 0 None None None 2018-02-20 12:32:53 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2018:0770 0 None None None 2018-04-10 13:12:39 UTC

Description Oliver Ilian 2018-02-15 14:14:09 UTC
Description of problem:
In RHEL 7.5 Snapshot 3, if the Gnome control center is opened on the WiFi Tab, and stays there, the list of available networks is not shown after some time, and on the current connected wifi network is shown.

------
based on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767918

NM upstream would like to reduce periodic scanning, and that means that clients should start implementing scan requests themselves while their wifi lists are open if they use that model.  Similar to how the Windows and macOS WiFi lists update themselves when they are open.

Once enough clients have been updated (eg, nm-applet, gnome-shell, KDE, geoclue, etc) we can reduce periodic scanning in NM itself.
------

This needs to be added also to Gnome control center.

Please make sure this is included into RHEL 7.5, as it impacts users trying to connect to Wifi networks.

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2018-02-20 15:20:26 UTC
The requirement is new due to NetworkManager 1.10 being used which includes the following change:
* Background scanning is now disabled for non-WPA-Enterprise Wi-Fi networks.

Comment 4 Vladimir Benes 2018-02-20 15:32:31 UTC
Could we at least scan when we open the Wifi panel? Isn't this doable for 7.5? It's really embarassing to turn off/on wifi to see available networks.

Comment 6 Whitney Chadwick 2018-02-20 17:41:31 UTC
Set Blocker flag to + per request from tpelka

Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2018-02-21 11:27:12 UTC
Built in control-center-3.26.2-8.el7

Comment 8 Vladimir Benes 2018-02-21 11:37:46 UTC
Working well, thanks!!

Comment 10 Tomas Pelka 2018-02-22 14:00:56 UTC
OK I find out that for me it was caused by autoconnect. Autoconnect on RedHat (with always ask password) actually cause that no other networks are visible in the list. Filed another bz - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1548000

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 13:11:47 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0770


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.