Bug 243164 - Network manager doesn't associate with my WEP access poing
Summary: Network manager doesn't associate with my WEP access poing
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-07 16:49 UTC by Brian G. Anderson
Modified: 2008-08-02 23:40 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 01:29:03 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
log of NM activities from /var/log/messages (8.70 KB, text/plain)
2007-06-07 16:49 UTC, Brian G. Anderson
no flags Details

Description Brian G. Anderson 2007-06-07 16:49:58 UTC
Description of problem:
I have a dell D620 with a BCM43xx card.  I've used the bcm43xx driver and the
ndiswrapper driver with the same following result.  I can see available access
points using iwlist and using the nm-applet.  I can set up the wlan0 device to
associate with an AP using "ifup wlan0".  However, NM refuses to associate with
the AP.  It prompts for a WEP key, spins for a while, and then prompts me for
the key again, rinse and repeat until I cancel.

It appears from the log that it times out when dhcp can't get an address.

I used iwconfig wlan0 when NM was trying to associate and the settings for the
wlan0 device were identical to those seen when using ifup successfully. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.6.5-3.fc7

How reproducible:
everytime


Steps to Reproduce:
1. use NM to try and connect to an AP on its list
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
continually prompts for a password


Expected results:
connection to the AP


Additional info:

I'll attach a log of NM activities.  First it asked me for the keyring password,
after a while it asked me for the wep key, and then after a while I canceled. 
NM left the link unconnected even though I have a working wireless connection.

Comment 1 Brian G. Anderson 2007-06-07 16:49:58 UTC
Created attachment 156484 [details]
log of NM activities from /var/log/messages

Comment 2 Gregory Maxwell 2007-06-15 02:43:59 UTC
I see the same behavior with Atheros. Just spins then barfs. Sometimes the dhcp
server logs show nothing at all (when NM is helpfully attempting to dhcp with
the key not set) and sometimes the dhcp server assigns it an address but network
manager doesn't seem to notice. Really miserable. Also, the daemon is crashing
sometime between where its started at boot and when the user account logs in and
must be manually restarted.

Comment 3 George N. White III 2007-06-16 15:27:44 UTC
I was having similar issues with 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7, using a sis162-based USB
key that was working with FC5 and ndiswrapper.  I tried using 16k stacks but 
it didn't help.  Today I upgraded kernel to 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7, ndiswrapper to
1.47, and NM.  I can associate with an open network, but with WPA-PSK
the connection is dropped after a few seconds.   

There selinux problems. I'm using permissive mode, but all the SEL cruft in 
the logs makes it hard to track the other wireless entries.


SELinux is preventing /bin/rm (hotplug_t) "unlink" to dhclient-wlan0.pid
(dhcpc_var_run_t).
SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant (udev_t) "unlink" to wlan0
(NetworkManager_var_run_t).
SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant (udev_t) "rmdir" to
wpa_supplicant (NetworkManager_var_run_t)
SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/killall (hotplug_t) "signal" to (NetworkManager_t).



Comment 4 Giuseppe Castagna 2007-09-19 22:34:13 UTC
This looks very much to the bug described in Ubuntu forums and which makes NM
unusable for **many** laptop owners (me included Thinkpad X40, Fedora 7, and 
madwifi driver)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper/+bug/85468

In a nutshell

Network manager does not associate, and keeps asking the same password. If I
disable Network Manager wireless and do:

sudo iwconfig eth1 essid <myessid> mode managed

then re-enable Network Manager wireless, it associates properly.

I really would like to the priority of this bug pass from low to high. 

Comment 5 Dan Williams 2008-04-22 18:58:24 UTC
Is this still an issue with latest F7 kernel and NM 0.6.6 from F7 updates?

Are you _sure_ of what WEP authentication mode your AP is using [ Open System or
Shared Key ] and are you setting that mode in the dialog?  madwifi is not WEXT
conformant for setting the WEP auth mode and therefore is unlikely to work with
Shared Key mode.

If you could attach your ifcfg-wlan0 file, that would be quite helpful.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 12:53:54 UTC
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:29:01 UTC
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