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Add autoconnect-retries-default to NetworkManager configs. #110

Closed bflanagin closed 3 years ago

bflanagin commented 3 years ago

Enhancement

Currently NetworkManager is set to fail after 4 attempts to auto-connect to a prefigured wifi connection. In rare occasions this may not be enough to ensure the computer reconnects after a power failure or other event. We should consider setting the auto-connect retry value to something higher than 4 to ensure proper reconnects.

Issue

https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/1490

Create file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/pop_os-autoconnect (filename could be better) and insert the following lines:

[main]
autoconnect-retries-default = 10
jacobgkau commented 3 years ago

Creating the configuration file that you're describing does not solve the issue described in https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/1490. I'm still able to replicate a disconnection by turning off a hotspot, and the connection does not automatically re-connect after turning the hotspot back on. (This is Pop!_OS 20.10 on a galp5.)

jacobgkau commented 3 years ago

We triaged this issue to the NetworkManager version in https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/1490. A newer NetworkManager version works properly (without changing any configuration.)

Since this configuration change doesn't fix the issue, I'm closing this PR for now.