Re: ipw2100 & Security mode:restricted

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 12:17 +0400, Sergey Smirnov wrote:
> I right click on gnome network applet and open "change connections"
> The same result if I start from console
> /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
> 
> apt-cache policy  network-manager-gnome
> network-manager-gnome:
>    Установлен: 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
>    Кандидат: 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
>    Таблица версий:
>   *** 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1 0
>          500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> dpkg -L network-manager-gnome
> /.
> /usr
> /usr/bin
> /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
> /usr/bin/nm-applet
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/nm-applet
> /usr/share/nm-applet/nm-connection-editor.glade
> ....
> 
> Can you show me version of network-manager-gnome package you use?
> dpkg -l network-manager-gnome
> apt-cache policy network-manager-gnome
> 
> May be I need to try NM from 
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/trunk/ubuntu/ ?

Can you grab a screenshot of the connection editor dialog for that
network?  Alt+Print Screen usually will do that for you.  Make sure to
have the Wireless Security tab selected.  Thanks!

Dan


> Dan Williams пишет:
> > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 21:14 +0400, Sergey Smirnov wrote:
> >> dpkg -l network-manager-gnome
> >> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> >> | 
> >> Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> >> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> >> ||/ Имя           Версия     Описание
> >> +++-================-================-================================================
> >> ii  network-manager- 0.8~a~git.200910 network management framework 
> >> (GNOME frontend)
> > 
> > How exactly are you getting to that front-end?  nm-connection-editor
> > upstream has an "Authentication" dropdown with both Open System and
> > Shared Key modes, as seen in the attached screenshot.  This shoudl also
> > be what Ubuntu Karmic shows as well.  Does yours not look like this?
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> >> Dan Williams wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 23:07 +0400, Sergey Smirnov wrote:
> >>>> Thank you Dan for your answer.
> >>>> I can set "Shared Key" auth mode in KDE NM editor.
> >>>> And I did this on other notebook with KDE.
> >>>> But Gmone nm-manager-editor doesn't show me this field (auth mode)
> >>>> It has only "Type of auth" and "Value of key"
> >>> Can you take a screenshot of the "Gnome nm-manager-editor" for me?  I'm
> >>> not quite clear on what specific program it is, but sounds like the
> >>> 0.6.x editor perhaps.  Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>>> Dan Williams wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 08:07 +0400, Sergey Smirnov wrote:
> >>>>>> Hello
> >>>>>> I use ad-hoc wi-fi with wep to connect few divice in home network.
> >>>>>> One notebook (IBM ThinkPad R40) has Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 
> >>>>>> 2100 wi-fi adapter.
> >>>>>> When I joint the ad-hoc using networkmanager it set:
> >>>>>> Security mode:open instead of Security mode:resticted
> >>>>>> and network doesn't work.
> >>>>>> If I manually set
> >>>>>> iwconfig wlan0 key s:XXXXXXXXXXXXX resticted
> >>>>>> network work fine.
> >>>>>> After some time NM again reset key mode to open and network down.
> >>>>> Try choosing "Shared Key" auth mode in the connection editor.
> >>>>> Right-click on the wifi icon in the menu bar, choose "Edit connections".
> >>>>> Click the "Wireless" tab, adn double-click your adhoc connection.  On
> >>>>> the wireless security page, choose "Shared Key" auth method, then hit OK
> >>>>> everywhere and try the connection again.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm somewhat dubious that Shared Key is actually legal with adhoc, so it
> >>>>> may just be driver problems too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dan
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>