Re: nm-applet and NetworkManager svn after 29 Sept

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 22:57 +1100, James . wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>         On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 19:10 +1100, James . wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:07 PM, James .
>         <jazzrz86 gmail com> wrote:
>         >         I use a couple of laptops with iwl3945 and one with
>         rt2860sta
>         >         and I connect to three wireless access points on a
>         daily
>         >         basis. One is WEP, one is WPA Personal and one is
>         WPA
>         >         Enterprise with PEAP (university).
>         >
>         >         With previous versions of Networkmanager before
>         around 29th of
>         >         September, connections to WEP and WPA Personal
>         through
>         >         nm-applet worked fine. Recently I noticed that I can
>         only
>         >         connect to wireless access points with security of
>         WEP or less
>         >         through nm-applet gui. If I click on the wireless
>         connection
>         >         through clicking on the icon and selecting a WPA
>         security
>         >         connection, the following error results:
>         >
>         >
>         > "Couldnt create default connection" in activate helper
>         function.
>         >
>         > I discovered was that NetworkManager or nm-applet is no
>         longer passing
>         > correct security flags, and the function get_secrets falls
>         through to
>         > the end, resulting in the error.
>         
>         
>         Could you paste in the output of '/sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan' for
>         the block
>         describing your AP?
>         
>         Thanks!
>         Dan
>         
>         
>         
> Okay upon further investigation, I now know that its not the
> securities that networkmanager cannot get, but for some reason
> networkmanager is not recognizing my device capabilities.
> Specifically, the return values of nm_device_wifi_get_capabilities are
> not correct anymore (NM_WIFI_DEVICE_CAP_WPA is not set). How is
> networkmanager getting these capabilities? I know that I recently
> updated to dbus 1.2.4 (from 1.1), hal 0.5.11 (from 0.5.10) and udev
> 130 (from 118). Would those updates have in anyway changed the way
> networkmanager operates to grab these capabilities?

Nothing has changed in how NM gets the capabilities.  NM gets them
directly from the driver via the SIOCGIWRANGE wireless extensions call.
Have you updated your kernel recently?

Dan