Ubuntu 12.04 testing: issue with WPA

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Byte Soup <bytesoup at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Im running 12.04 beta2 on my Dell Latitude 610 machine. Network manager
> shows all my local Wireless nodes but will only allow me to connect to open
> networks. The ones that use WPA etc are greyed out. I can see the following
> errors in syslog:
>
> syslog:Apr  9 08:53:46 D610 dbus[527]: [system] Activating service
> name='fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1' (using servicehelper)
> syslog:Apr  9 08:53:46 D610 dbus[527]: [system] Successfully activated
> service 'fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1'
> syslog:Apr  9 08:53:46 D610 NetworkManager[582]: <info> wpa_supplicant
> started
> syslog:Apr  9 08:53:46 D610 wpa_supplicant[764]: nl80211: Driver does not
> support authentication/association or connect commands
>
> I have the following network hardware:
>
>   *-network
>        description: Wireless interface
>        product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
>        vendor: Intel Corporation
>        physical id: 3
>        bus info: pci at 0000:03:03.0
>        logical name: eth1
>        version: 05
>        serial: 00:13:ce:ee:c9:7e
>        width: 32 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
>        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq
> firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=64 link=no maxlatency=24
> mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
>        resources: irq:17 memory:dfcff000-dfcfffff
>
> Before I file a bug, what other information should I gather?

This is a known issue for which there are patches available (and
waiting for just a bit more testing and upstream input). See bug
973241 [1].

That bug doesn't need any additional information, I'd just like to get
this committed upstream as well, and will be fixed shortly (and before
release).

[1] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/973241

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu-tl at ubuntu.com>
Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu.tl at gmail.com
4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E  FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93