Bug 429622 - NetworkManager association with WPA is unreliable.
Summary: NetworkManager association with WPA is unreliable.
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-21 23:24 UTC by Philippe Troin
Modified: 2009-01-07 22:35 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-07 22:35:05 UTC
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Description Philippe Troin 2008-01-21 23:24:13 UTC
Description of problem:
Associating with a WPA-protected access point works unreliably.
Associations will fail 90% of the times and will succeed once in a while.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.fc8.i386
wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-21.fc8.i386
kernel-2.6.23.8-63.i686
Using ipw2200.

How reproducible:
Most of the times.

Additional info:
Turn on the RF-kill switch, waiting a few seconds and turning it off increases
the chances of a successful association.
Stopping NetworkManager, waiting a few seconds and turning it back on also
increases the chances of a successful association.

I've also noticed that "iwconfig" reports no encryption keys when NetworkManager
is trying to associate.  This always leads to a failing association.

Phil.

Comment 1 Philippe Troin 2008-01-24 03:32:55 UTC
Bug is still present in NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3204.fc8.i386.
Phil.

Comment 2 Philippe Troin 2008-01-28 19:22:02 UTC
One extra data point:
After testing with a Linksys AP, the problem seems to happen only with Apple
Airport Extreme access points.
These access points seem to offer both WEP and WPA at the same time.
This might confuse NM.

Phil.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 09:31:21 UTC
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Comment 4 Philippe Troin 2009-01-07 22:35:05 UTC
Now fixed, even in F8.


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