[Bug 348275] Re: [iwlagn] networkmanager applet cannot connect to WPA2 home network. Neither can WICD.

[Tony Espy]

I'd like to respond to Ronnie's recent comments...

Canonical has responded to this bug from the start.  One of the problems
is that multiple bugs have been intermingled in a single bug report and
thus it makes it very hard to manage.

Javier, the *original* bug reporter stated that he couldn't connect to a
WPA2/AES access point.

He also changed the original description to state that by installing
linux-backports-generic, and the Jaunty version of network-manager from
the PPA, that his problem resolved.  Similarly, he's stated that it
works in the current development release ( Karmic ) as well.

As for the garbled key / passphrase displayed when using "Edit
Connections", unfortunately this is the way the network-manager applet
used to store keys & passphrases.  The keys/passphrases input by the
user were transformed into the native format, which as you've pointed
out makes it very hard to edit.  This has been fixed in NM 0.8 which
will be included in Ubuntu 9.10.  For more details about hashed keys,
you can read Dan William's blog which describes in detail how NM 0.7
handled keys ( search for "hashed keys" in the page ).

http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/category/networkmanager/

Also Ronnie, losing connections again is a *different* problem than what
Javier originally described.  If you're still experiencing this problem,
please enter a *new* bug report.  Please see the following Wiki page for
more information on how to properly do so:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Finally, it's my opinion that the linux (ubuntu) portion of this bug
should be marked WontFix, as installing backports modules seems to fix
the original problem, and as pointed out above, it's fixed in Karmic.

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[iwlagn] networkmanager applet cannot connect to WPA2 home network.  Neither can WICD.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348275
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