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?
