Re: NM 0.7 can't connect to WPA network

[Joel Goguen <jgoguen jgoguen ca>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 18:14 -0400, Joel Goguen wrote:
>> Joel Goguen wrote:
>>> I built NM 0.7 from SVN (current as of this morning) and when I try to 
>>> connect to a WPA network, I get these messages.  Unfortunately, I'm not 
>>> certain where to even begin looking to debug this, but hopefully some 
>>> info about the network itself is a start.  The SSID contains only 
>>> alphanumeric characters, but the passphrase contains non-alphanumeric 
>>> characters, including # and !.  It's WPA/TKIP.  The same thing also 
>>> happens on a WPA-Enterprise network using TTLS/PAP.  In this case, both 
>>> the SSID and passphrase contain non-alphanumeric characters, including ! 
>>> and @.  I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 and the driver is madwifi 0.9.3.  Both 
>>> these networks worked perfectly using NM 0.6.5.
>>>
>>> Any pointers on where to look to help debug this or suggestions to get 
>>> this working would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> [jgoguen hermes:~/Code/network-manager-applet]$ sudo 
>>> /usr/sbin/NetworkManager 
>>> --pid-file=/var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid --no-daemon
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'sky2'.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exporting device as 
>>> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_17_f2_2b_c6_20
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device eth0
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth0.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  ath0: Device is fully-supported using driver 
>>> 'ath_pci'.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0): exporting device as 
>>> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_16_cb_bc_a6_4b
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'ath0'.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device ath0
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device ath0.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0) supplicant interface is now in state 2 
>>> (from 1).
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0) supplicant interface is now in state 2 
>>> (from 1).
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  User request for activation of ath0.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activating device ath0
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) 
>>> scheduled...
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) 
>>> started...
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device 
>>> Configure) scheduled...
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) 
>>> complete.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device 
>>> Configure) starting...
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0/wireless): access point 'Auto 
>>> GamerCorner' has security, but secrets are required.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device 
>>> Configure) complete.
>>> NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_secrets_cb(): Couldn't get connection 
>>> secrets: applet.c.3297 (get_secrets_dialog_response_cb): failed to hash 
>>> setting '802-11-wireless-security'..
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) failed for access point 
>>> (GamerCorner)
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Marking connection 'Auto GamerCorner' invalid.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) failed.
>>> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device ath0.
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> [jgoguen hermes:~/Code/network-manager-applet]$ nm-applet --sm-disable
>>>
>>> ** (nm-applet:4949): WARNING **: No connections defined
>>>
>>> ** (nm-applet:4949): WARNING **: No networks found in the configuration 
>>> database
>>> ** Message: <info>  No keyring secrets found for Auto 
>>> GamerCorner/802-11-wireless-security; ask the user
>>>
>>> ** Message: <info>  Got setting name: 802-11-wireless-security
>>>
>>>
>>> ** (nm-applet:4949): CRITICAL **: nm_setting_to_hash: assertion 
>>> `NM_IS_SETTING (setting)' failed
>>>
>>> ** (nm-applet:4949): WARNING **: applet.c.3295 
>>> (get_secrets_dialog_response_cb): failed to hash setting 
>>> '802-11-wireless-security'.
>>>
>>>
>> NM 0.7 also can't connect to an open wireless point, but wpa_supplicant
>> works fine.  Here's the output from this test.  Also, in both cases I
>> started wpa_supplicant with the '-u' and '-B' flags before NetworkManager.
> 
> This is with madwifi, right?  What driver were you using (madwifi or
> wext) when running wpa_supplicant manually?  Can you post your
> wpa_supplicant config?
> 
> Dan
> 
>> [jgoguen hermes:~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
>> --pid-file=/var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid --no-daemon
>> [sudo] password for jgoguen:
>> NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
>> NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'sky2'.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exporting device as
>> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_17_f2_2b_c6_20
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device eth0
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth0.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  ath0: Device is fully-supported using driver
>> 'ath_pci'.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0): exporting device as
>> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_16_cb_bc_a6_4b
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'ath0'.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device ath0
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device ath0.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0) supplicant interface is now in state 2
>> (from 1).
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0) supplicant interface is now in state 2
>> (from 1).
>> NetworkManager: <info>  User request for activation of ath0.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activating device ath0
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
>> scheduled...
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
>> started...
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
>> Configure) scheduled...
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
>> complete.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
>> Configure) starting...
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0/wireless): connection 'Auto
>> Crumbs' requires no security.  No secrets needed.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'ssid' value 'Crumbs'
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE'
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
>> Configure) complete.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0) Supplicant interface state change: 2 -> 0
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0) Supplicant interface state change: 0 -> 2
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0) Supplicant interface state change: 2 -> 3
>> NetworkManager: <info>  ath0: link timed out.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0) Supplicant interface state change: 3 -> 0
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0) Supplicant interface state change: 0 -> 2
>> NetworkManager: <info>  (ath0) Supplicant interface state change: 2 -> 3
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0/wireless): association took too
>> long, failing activation.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) failed for access point (Crumbs)
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Marking connection 'Auto Crumbs' invalid.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ath0) failed.
>> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device ath0.
>> NetworkManager: <WARN>  remove_network_cb(): Couldn't remove network
>> from supplicant interface: The requested network does not exist..
>>
>>
>>
> 
For this, I was using wext.  It seems that madwifi works fine for
WPA-Enterprise as of whatever the last update in Ubuntu is (0.9.3 IIRC)
as I discovered by reinstalling and forgetting to put the copy of NM I
patched to use madwifi in place.  Here's the configs for the three
networks in wpa_supplicant.conf, and they all worked fine with NM 0.6.5:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=admin
update_config=1

network={
        ssid="GamerCorner"
        psk="RandomHexDigits"
        proto=WPA
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=TKIP
        group=TKIP
}

network={
        ssid="Wireless UNB"
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        pairwise=TKIP
        group=TKIP
        eap=TTLS
        identity="login_id"
        password="password"
        phase2="auth=PAP"
}

network={
        ssid="Crumbs"
        key_mgmt=NONE
}

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