From 08f3e6477a84b8c75c8dd7048ba616dd3544876e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan O'Reilly <oreilldf@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:22:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Retry AP association verification 10 times to accomodate
 cards that are slow to associate.  Thanks to muttoni for the patch.

---
 wicd/networking.py | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wicd/networking.py b/wicd/networking.py
index 605ca83..4dad92a 100644
--- a/wicd/networking.py
+++ b/wicd/networking.py
@@ -454,8 +454,14 @@ class ConnectThread(threading.Thread):
         """
         if self.network.get('gateway'):
             self.SetStatus('verifying_association')
-            print "Verifying AP association"
-            retcode = self.iface.VerifyAPAssociation(self.network['gateway'])
+            print "Verifying AP association..."
+            for tries in range(1, 11):
+                print "Attempt %d of 10..." % tries
+                retcode = self.iface.VerifyAPAssociation(self.network['gateway'])
+                if retcode == 0: 
+                    print "Successfully associated."
+                    break
+                time.sleep(1)
             #TODO this should be in wnettools.py
             if retcode:
                 print "Connection Failed: Failed to ping the access point!"