Bug 190075

Summary:	wpa_supplicant + WEP + madwifi + NetworkManager
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Giuseppe Castagna <gc>
Component:	wpa_supplicant	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Version:	5	CC:	a1_canon, marian_ion, matthias, thms
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Description Giuseppe Castagna 2006-04-27 11:23:24 UTC

Description of problem:

NetworkManager with WEP and madwifi does not work beacause of a bug of
wpa_supplicant. This has been recently fixed in wpa_supplicant 0.4.9. See

http://hostap.epitest.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=140

Could you please upgrade to the new version? Thanks

Comment 1 Matthias Saou 2006-04-28 10:34:21 UTC

I ran into the same problem. Apparently Dan fixed it in Rawhide today :

wpa_supplicant-1:0.4.8-10.fc6
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* Thu Apr 27 2006 Dan Williams <dcbw> - 0.4.8-10
- Add fix for madwifi and WEP (wpa_supplicant/hostap bud #140) (#rh190075#)
- Fix up madwifi-ng private ioctl()s for r1331 and later
- Update madwifi headers to r1475

Comment 2 Giuseppe Castagna 2006-04-29 00:25:54 UTC

Indeed it was fixed. I got the rawhide source and compile it on my (pretty
standard) fc5 installation: now Madwify svn revision 1531 with WEP and
NetworkManager work like a charme (it just took me some time to understand that
I had to start /etc/init.d/dhcdbd)

My opinion is that you could push it to fc5-update-testing.

Comment 3 Marian-Nicolae ION 2006-05-01 10:40:35 UTC

does it really needs dhcdbd ? I don't have it but it works OK... the only 
thing I did was to start wpa_supplicant *before* network..

Comment 4 Giuseppe Castagna 2006-05-01 11:27:31 UTC

Well, I do not know really. I just noticed that after having updated
wpa_supplicant connection failed, but with a different message, that is


Apr 29 02:03:58 mirto NetworkManager: <WARNING>  nm_dhcp_manager_get_state_for_d
evice (): dhcdbd not running!
Apr 29 02:04:11 mirto NetworkManager: <WARNING>  nm_dhcp_manager_begin_transacti
on (): dhcdbd not running!

So I started dhcdbd and then it started to work. Is it me who have a weird
configuration?

Comment 5 Thomas M Steenholdt 2006-05-15 12:21:41 UTC

FWIW (and i've only tested with one accessoint so far) - Using madwifi svn
version 1552 (today), wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.fc5 and NetworkManager-0.6.2-2.fc5
things appear to be working nicely.

I've tried unencrypted, WEP- and WPA encrypted against a 3Com 3CRWE454G72
accesspoint. Everything worked like a charm!