Re: NM can't see WEP access point

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 09:58 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 16:09 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > iwlist scan as root shows:
> >           Cell 17 - Address: 00:24:36:9D:3B:33
> >                     Channel:11
> >                     Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
> >                     Quality=70/70  Signal level=-32 dBm  
> >                     Encryption key:on
> >                     ESSID:"WEP test"
> >                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6
> > Mb/s
> >                               9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
> >                     Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
> >                     Mode:Master
> >                     Extra:tsf=00000069f3b5fd9a
> >                     Extra: Last beacon: 27430ms ago
> >                     IE: Unknown: 00085745502074657374
> >                     IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824
> >                     IE: Unknown: 03010B
> >                     IE: Unknown: 0706474220010D1E
> >                     IE: Unknown: 2A0100
> >                     IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
> >                     IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
> >                         Group Cipher : WEP-104
> >                         Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
> >                         Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
> >                     IE: Unknown:
> > 2D1A2C4017FFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> >                     IE: Unknown:
> > 3D160B001100000000000000000000000000000000000000
> >                     IE: Unknown: 46050200010000
> >                     IE: WPA Version 1
> >                         Group Cipher : WEP-104
> >                         Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
> >                         Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
> >                     IE: Unknown:
> > DD180050F2020101070003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
> >                     IE: Unknown: DD07000393016B0B20
> >                     IE: Unknown: DD0E0017F207000101060024369D3B33
> >                     IE: Unknown: DD0B0017F20100010100000007
> >
> > Which is a WEP access point created on an Airport Express gen 1
> > device.
> > "nmcli -f all device wifi | grep 'WEP test'" doesn't show anything
> > related to that access point?
> >
> > Any ideas on how to debug this?
>
> It depends if the supplicant has actually exposed it via D-Bus yet
> too.
>
> Grab http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/wpas-list.py and sudo-run that
> with
> the interface name of your wifi device, and see if the AP shows up in
> that list.  It directly dumps out the supplicant's AP list in a more
> readable form.

$ sudo ./wpas-list.py wlp2s0
[sudo] password for hadess: 
  54:64:d9:3e:0e:89  ::  ssid='Livebox-0E88'  wpa=yes  wpa2=yes  signal=-58%  freq=5240
  18:1e:78:70:c4:6b  ::  ssid='Livebox-C46A'  wpa=yes  wpa2=yes  signal=-62%  freq=5520
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./wpas-list.py", line 68, in <module>
    main()
  File "./wpas-list.py", line 46, in main
    props = props_iface.GetAll(WPAS_DBUS_BSSID_INTERFACE)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: failed to parse RSN IE

Ungood.