Bug 213113

Summary:	NM should honor default wpa_supplicant configuration for a given ESSID
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pavel Polischouk <pavel.polischouk>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
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Description Pavel Polischouk 2006-10-30 20:51:32 UTC

Description of problem:

In my setup, wpa_supplicant is able to authenticate with the access point using
its own configuration file. NetworkManager thrashes this configuration, and is
unable to configure wpa_supplicant to do the same. 
The reason why NM is unable to configure the supplicant properly is a matter for
another bug. This one is about missing "select AP->use default WS config"
functionality. The only workaround for now is to completely disable NM.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.6.4-5.fc6


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create working wpa_supplicat.conf
2. Start NetworkManager
  
Actual results:
No auth.

Expected results:
Should authenticate properly as soon as requested ESSID is selected in NM-applet

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2008-01-03 17:48:14 UTC

NM uses the D-Bus config interface, not the wpa_supplicant config file. 
Configuration information for NM is kept in a more unified format for the user
and in the distros default format (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*) for
system connections.  Using wpa_supplicant.conf doesn't really provide and
benefit and is the wrong place to store the information.