Re: NM requires restart to see encrypted AP's

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 19:37 -0500, Monty Malik wrote:
> Unfortunately the search function is borked, so I hope this issue hasn't been discussed already.
> 
> My specs
> Distribution:     FC6
> Wireless Driver:  ipw2200
> Desktop:	  kde 3.5.5
> NetworkManager:   0.6.4
> KNetworkManager:  0.1
> Encryption:	  wpa
> 
> I'm having issues with NM right after bootup, it doesn't show any access points that are using WPA/WEP encryption.  I can see my neighbours unprotected access point, but not my own encrypted one.  Even, if I try to force it to connect to my access point (by using the "connect to other wireless networks") it doesn't work.  However, if I manually restart the NetworkManager daemon, it shows my access point and I can connect to it without a problem.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what the problem may be??

As root, from a terminal, run '/sbin/iwlist ethX scan' and replace ethX
with your wireless device.  Do you see any access points using WEP?  Do
you see any WPA-enabled ones?  A WPA-enabled access point should look
like this:

          Cell 04 - Address: 00:19:xx:xx:xx:xx
                    ESSID:"foobar"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:9
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Quality=37/100  Signal level=-78 dBm  
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP 
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP 
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK  
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP 
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP 
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK  

And any WEP AP should say "Encryption key: on".  What versions of the
ipw2200 and ieee80211 modules do you currently have loaded (you can get
that from 'dmesg' output)?

Thanks,
Dan

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Monty
>  
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