Debian Bug report logs - #458125
network-manager offers only WEP encryption, no WPA

Toggle useless messages

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: network-manager offers only WEP encryption, no WPA

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:50:03 +0100

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-3

The wireless configuration window for network-manager only offers the
choice between "WEP key (hexadecimal)" and "WEP key (ascii)": no WPA
here.  Yet wpa_supplicant, when invoked manually (whether with -Dwext
or -Dmadwifi, see below for card model) works perfectly, and enables
WPA as it should.  Why is network-manager unaware of this?

Whatever the reason, I think it would be wise to add a checkbox
somewhere in the network manager config to the effect of "force trying
to use WPA/WPA2, even if we believe wpa_supplicant can't do it on this
card" (or something): sometimes the user knows better than the
software!


The Wifi card in question has a PCI ID of 168c:001c (rev 01):

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

(this is found in an EeePC model p702).  I'm using MadWifi version
r2756 (20071018) with a special patch for this chipset (<URL:
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679 >): as I mentioned, this gets
wpa_supplicant working perfectly with it (both with -Dwext and
-Dmadwifi).  Kernel is 2.6.23.12 (with slight patches but none
relating to this).


I've read <URL:
http://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ#head-f132724b1dcf37edce7ce29df8be355706fd97d5
 >, but I see nothing that applies to me: WEXT is supported and
MadWifi/Atheros is reported to work in general.

-- 
     David A. Madore
    (david.madore@ens.fr,
     http://www.madore.org/~david/ )

Message #10 received at 458125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>

To: 458125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: network-manager offers only WEP encryption, no WPA

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:16:08 +0100

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:50:03PM +0100, David Madore wrote:
> The wireless configuration window for network-manager only offers the
> choice between "WEP key (hexadecimal)" and "WEP key (ascii)": no WPA
> here.  Yet wpa_supplicant, when invoked manually (whether with -Dwext
> or -Dmadwifi, see below for card model) works perfectly, and enables
> WPA as it should.  Why is network-manager unaware of this?

I should probably add the following piece of information: the output
of "iwlist ath0 auth" is as follows:

ath0      Authentication capabilities :
		WPA
		WPA2
		CIPHER-TKIP
		CIPHER-CCMP
          Current WPA version :
		WPA2
          Current Key management :
		PSK
          Current Pairwise cipher :
		CCMP
          Current Pairwise cipher :
		CCMP
          Current TKIP countermeasures : no
          Current Drop unencrypted : yes
          Current Roaming control : no
          Current Privacy invoked : yes

So iwlist from wireless-tools 29~pre22-1 (and libiw, which is the same
version and compiled from the same source) knows that WPA and WPA2 are
supported.  I can't imagine why network-manager doesn't pick up on
this.  This makes the following all the truer:

> Whatever the reason, I think it would be wise to add a checkbox
> somewhere in the network manager config to the effect of "force trying
> to use WPA/WPA2, even if we believe wpa_supplicant can't do it on this
> card" (or something): sometimes the user knows better than the
> software!

-- 
     David A. Madore
    (david.madore@ens.fr,
     http://www.madore.org/~david/ )

Message #15 received at 458125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>, 458125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#458125: network-manager offers only WEP encryption, no WPA

Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:37:15 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

David Madore schrieb:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.5-3
> 
> The wireless configuration window for network-manager only offers the
> choice between "WEP key (hexadecimal)" and "WEP key (ascii)": no WPA
> here.  Yet wpa_supplicant, when invoked manually (whether with -Dwext
> or -Dmadwifi, see below for card model) works perfectly, and enables
> WPA as it should.  Why is network-manager unaware of this?

Could you attach the output of nm-tool
and the NetworkManager log file (run NetworkManager --no-daemon).

It very much looks like a driver problem though.

Michael

-- 
Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
universe are pointed away from Earth?

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]

Message #20 received at 458125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@smop.co.uk>

To: 458125@bugs.debian.org, 448306@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: madwifi connection problems

Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 21:52:15 +0100

I wonder if including the patch referred to in #478120 would help
here.  Odd that #458125 reports that -wext works manually mind.

Adrian
-- 
Email: adrian@smop.co.uk  -*-  GPG key available on public key servers
Debian GNU/Linux - the maintainable distribution   -*-  www.debian.org

Message #25 received at 458125-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>, 458125-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#458125: Bug#458125: network-manager offers only WEP encryption, no WPA

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:20:49 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Am 05.04.2008 11:37, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> David Madore schrieb:
>> Package: network-manager
>> Version: 0.6.5-3
>>
>> The wireless configuration window for network-manager only offers the
>> choice between "WEP key (hexadecimal)" and "WEP key (ascii)": no WPA
>> here.  Yet wpa_supplicant, when invoked manually (whether with -Dwext
>> or -Dmadwifi, see below for card model) works perfectly, and enables
>> WPA as it should.  Why is network-manager unaware of this?
> 
> Could you attach the output of nm-tool
> and the NetworkManager log file (run NetworkManager --no-daemon).
> 
> It very much looks like a driver problem though.

Got no further information, so closing.
If you still experience the problem on an up-to-date squeeze or sid system,
please file a new but and attache the output of
nm-tool
and
NetworkManager --no-daemon --log-level=debug
(run /etc/init.d/network-manager stop before)

Michael

-- 
Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
universe are pointed away from Earth?

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.