Bug 684022

Summary:	NetworkManager WLAN not working on KDE anymore
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	GroovieMan <christian.groove>
Component:	kde-plasma-networkmanagement	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	14	CC:	dcbw, kevin, rdieter
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description GroovieMan 2011-03-10 22:18:52 UTC

Description of problem:
The plasma-interface of the NetworkManager has a nasty
bug for mobile devices(Bug 653073). This week a update
on the network-manager or KDE cause a new problem.
the WLAN WPA2 setting of password does not work anymore.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager 0.8.3.997 (for FC14).

How reproducible:
When you try to connect to a WLAN/WIFI via WPA2-private
then a configured WPA/WPA2 Personal password, the password
does not seem to be understood in a KDE session and
a seconday dialog for giving the correct password is shown.
When you do the same within a Gnome-Session everything
works !!!!


Steps to Reproduce:
1. WLAN/WIFI connect under KDE
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
does not understand the password

Expected results:
successful connection establishment.

Additional info:
This happend on both of my labtops with Fedora14.
Iff possible kick out the plasma-frontend until
both problems (also GSM config) is working.

Comment 1 GroovieMan 2011-03-11 08:39:17 UTC

i followed up the source of the problem and 
changed the componnetn from Network-Manager
to kde-plasma-networkmanagement.

After all i started nm-applet manually
an the good ole NM-Apple appeard in my
system try. 
The GSM(mobile device) started up without
any problem.

This evennig i will try to get the WLAN/WIFI
running. 

@Fedora: remove the kde-placma-networkmanagement
from this distribution. It seemd that this app
is not stable in terms of its development.
It is a real pain for KDE-users on Fedora

Comment 2 GroovieMan 2011-03-11 08:40:52 UTC

This wiki helped me to switch back to the gnome-NetworkManager

Comment 3 GroovieMan 2011-03-11 08:41:07 UTC

This wiki helped me to switch back to the gnome-NetworkManager/usr/share/kde4/services/kded/networkmanagement.desktop

Comment 4 Kevin Kofler 2011-03-11 11:05:31 UTC

This is already reported.

It is unlikely that we will give up on a fine piece of software such as kde-plasma-networkmanagement for a single regression.

FYI, the plasmoid works fine for me (and most of our users, I think), including authentication, and has worked fine for months. We're still trying to figure out what's going wrong in your and the other affected cases so we can push a fix.

The right approach to regressions is to fix them, not to drop the software altogether.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 682972 ***

Comment 5 GroovieMan 2011-03-11 11:46:31 UTC

Salut Kevin,

> It is unlikely that we will give up on a fine piece of software such as
> kde-plasma-networkmanagement for a single regression.

i can not believe, that i am the only one, who has problem with
the GMS konfig, cause its broken. It uses a different (outdated)
chap dialog for any reason. The gnome pendant is working!

You may notice also a delta of dialogs for the nm-connection-editor.
The kde-plasma implementation shows a PUK field while the
working gnome version only needs the password field to be 
inserted.
Finally kde-plasma cause the generation of a outdated 
CHAP dialog with password/puk, that is not supported.

THIS CAN NOT WORK!


YI, the plasmoid works fine for me (and most of our users, I think), including
authentication, and has worked fine for months. We're still trying to figure

What, eth0 ?? What about WLAN  or mobile devices like GSM/3D ?

Comment 6 Kevin Kofler 2011-03-11 11:57:04 UTC

Both WPA-PSK and WPA-EAP (Eduroam) work fine for me.

While I haven't personally tested mobile broadband (GSM/UMTS/3G/...), that's also expected to work by now, we even had a report from a user where kde-plasma-networkmanagement worked for his mobile broadband and the GNOME nm-applet didn't!

Comment 7 GroovieMan 2011-03-11 21:44:13 UTC

> Both WPA-PSK and WPA-EAP (Eduroam) work fine for me.

try google and you have to re-think your these, try this:
"Fedora 14 KDE networkmanager not working WPA" and you get:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1449313
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1373688
.....

> While I haven't personally tested mobile broadband (GSM/UMTS/3G/...), that's
> also expected to work by now, we even had a report from a user where

... report sent by santa-claus, did not he ??

Kevin: the kde-plasma-networkmanager should do the same
as the gnome reference. Its aim is to do exactly the same
thing. Iff not, than kde-plasma-networkmanager is wrong!!
And in fact it does some very strange things!

Comment 8 Kevin Kofler 2011-03-11 22:38:07 UTC

Uh, do you understand "for me"?
I'm not the only one who has this working, either.

> ... report sent by santa-claus, did not he ??

No, by an actual user.