Re: NM can't see WEP access point

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 10:23 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 17:13 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 10:00 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > >
> > <snip>
> > > So I missed it before.  But your AP isn't actually set for WEP,
> > > it's
> > > set for WPA/TKIP.  If it's actually using just WEP, you won't see
> > > any
> > > of the RSN/WPA IEs in the beacon.
> > Still isn't right that it's not showing though, is it?
>
> Yeah.  Can you 'nmcli g log', then:
>
> nmcli g log level debug domains <output from 'g log'
> domains>,WIFI_SCAN
>
> and then turn on airplane mode, turn it off, and wait for a bit until
> you're sure the AP doesn't get found by NM.  Then send me the logs
> and
> I'll take a look to see if I can figure out why NM doesn't find it.
>  If
> the supplicant sees it, but NM does not, then there's an NM bug
> somewhere.

Well, wpa_supplicant is throwing an error when you try to get the RSN,
so I don't really expect NM to be able to process that access point.