Description of problem: When connecting to a protected AP NM pops up a box titled "Wireless Network Key Required" When you type in your password, instead of dots it shows the password. Additionally the "Connect" Button never lites up, the only option left is the "Cancel" button. When you click it it core dumps nm dies and bug buddy pops up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [pgraner@moltar ~]$ rpm -q NetworkManager NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.3.svn2852.fc8 [pgraner@moltar ~]$ rpm -q dbus dbus-1.1.2-6.fc8 [pgraner@moltar ~]$ rpm -q gnome-keyring gnome-keyring-2.20-1.fc8 How reproducible: 100% I would attach the bug buddy output, but it does not give it to me, just some bizarre message about it collecting it but it can't send it to the gnome server.
starting nm-applet from the command line gives this output: [pgraner@moltar ~]$ ** Message: NM appeared ** (nm-applet:4161): WARNING **: Found connection Auto rh-wireless to activate at /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0. ** Message: <info> No keyring secrets found for Auto rh-wireless/802-11-wireless-security; ask the user process 4161: arguments to dbus_message_new_error() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_error_name (error_name)" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1207. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace 05433fd8-851e-4de4-19b32c02-17388d96 is dumped
This is a "me too". I had NetworkManager working in F8T2 with my WEP connection using ndiswrapper. It had the annoying Keyring prompt before I connected first time. I was happy to see the upgrade to 0.7 in hopes that prompt would go away. After doing a yum update to the newer NetworkManager, I get the above described behavior during the "Wireless Network Key Required" dialog. I'm not sure if this is caused by the pre-existing keyring values but I'd think it should handle upgrades. I think the "summary" of this bug should probably be updated slightly. I'm less concerned about the password in clear text but the fact that "Connect" is greyed out doesn't let me connect to my AP.
So after dorking with this for a bit, I realized this is not the keyring password, its actually asking for the WEP password and the "Connect" button won't light up until you put in all 26 (I think) hex chars. Then you can click connect, then the keyring password box pops up. This is a different behavior from previous where you couldn't do crap with a WEP access point until you gave it your keyring password. The WEP box should be changed so that its more obvious that its looking for a wep key. Prior it would give you numerous options (WEP 48/128 bit....), now its just a text field. I'm gussing the the supplicant below just knows what to do based on the string so they gleeped out the pick list of auth methods. But I don't know for sure. It does work now, so I'm changing the summary to be, "Make the Wireless Auth box more intuitive"
I'm pretty sure that this is just a red-tape ui until dan has fixed up the real thing.
The text is now Password Required by Wireless Network A passphrase or encryption key is required to access the wireless network 'e=mc^2'. Password: [_____________] with the same title. Does that seem better to you (seems pretty clear to me)?
Yes, it is much more clear to me now that the question is not for Keyring but for Network key. Also, I can verify that with latest NetworkManager that the nm-applet no longer crashes as reported above when you select "Cancel". So actually two separate issues are resolved now. I still have some outstanding issue where I can associated but I can't get an IP address from DHCP. Used to work before 0.7 upgrade. I'll try to find out more information and either write a new bug report or look for another pre-existing. Seem to be unique to me as Commnet #3 says its working for them.
Looks much better now. Like in #6 above I'm having the same, not getting an IP when associated as well.
With the update of NetworkManager as of today I can now connect to my AP's again. So my issues described in Comment #6 is resolved. Looks like I'm back to pre-0.7 state now. Well, one thing does seem to not be working. When I unplugged my wired connection, I get a notification message about the disconnect but NetworkManager doesn't automatically switch to a wireless network. I have to manually pick one. I think there may be other bug reports that already mention this (I think I saw something on the test mailing list).
Chris -- the not autoconnecting thing is tracked in a separate bug. Thanks for the feedback everyone; closing this one out.