I just wanted to throw the phrase BG2200 in here so it'll come up on a search. I'd separately reported this problem but with much less expertise at 977688
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971628 Title: Can't use WPA with ipw2200 Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: If some driver implements wext interface and nl80211 interface the latter is preferred. With the ipw2200 driver this implementation doesn't yield any encryption capabilites but the wext interface is never consulted. If the order of the function calls is reversed in wifi-utils.c the problem is solved for me and I dont have a regression with ath5k. --- a/src/wifi/wifi-utils.c 2012-03-01 06:26:37.000000000 +0100 +++ b/src/wifi/wifi-utils.c 2012-04-02 16:01:53.239030963 +0200 @@ -61,12 +61,14 @@ g_return_val_if_fail (iface != NULL, NULL); g_return_val_if_fail (ifindex > 0, NULL); - ret = wifi_nl80211_init (iface, ifindex); + ret = NULL; + + #if HAVE_WEXT + ret = wifi_wext_init (iface, ifindex, check_scan); + #endif if (ret == NULL) { -#if HAVE_WEXT - ret = wifi_wext_init (iface, ifindex, check_scan); -#endif - } + ret = wifi_nl80211_init (iface, ifindex); + } return ret; } To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/971628/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
