Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.2-3
Severity: normal
The README files make the claim that network-manager supports WPA.
Unfortunately I cannot confirm that.
My working manual configuration in /etc/network/interfaces was as
follows:
iface eth2 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid Some_ESSID
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-group TKIP
wpa-passphrase somepassword
auto eth2
Now, I tried how network-manager would cope: I removed everything except
for the "iface" and "auto" stanzas, restarted dbus and logged in again,
so that the interface would be managed by network-manager.
Selecting my access point from the dropdown menu provided by nm-applet yields
an error message, IIRC: "This network requires hardware capabilities
unsupported by your card."
/var/log/syslog reports something about a missing key for this network,
however, the expected popup, requesting the passphrase does not appear.
Further I tried to manually associate with my router ("connect to
another wireless network", or so). This dialogue window that nm-applet
shows, suggests that network-manager is unaware of WPA. You can choose
between three different representations of WEP keys (hex, ascii,
passphrase) but no WPA. Not surprisingly, selecting passphrase and
entering the WPA passphrase fails.
Since the traditional way (through /etc/network/interfaces) works just
fine, I assume that this must be a bug in network-manager or a packaging
issue.
I don't know if it makes any difference here, my wlan hardware has an
ipw2200 chipset.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii dbus 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii dhcdbd 1.14-1 dbus interface to the ISC DHCP cli
ii hal 0.5.7-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii iproute 20051007-4 Professional tools to control the
ii iputils-arping 3:20020927-3 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii libc6 2.3.6-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpg-error0 1.2-1 library for common error values an
ii libhal1 0.5.7-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libiw28 28-1 Wireless tools - library
ii libnl1-pre6 0.99+1.0.svn21-4 Library for dealing with netlink s
ii libnm-util0 0.6.2-3 network management framework (shar
ii lsb-base 3.1-5 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii wpasupplicant 0.4.8-4 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
network-manager recommends no packages.
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