Should the nl80211 interface be patched out of the kernel? Or patcheed to report encryption capabilities? This interface doesn't even report that wep is supported and thats plain wrong. I agree with you that this patch isn't the best way to solve this. I just asked myself: if I can call the nl80211 util function and it returns NULL if that's not implemented, shouldn't it be possible to do the same with the wext function? But I didn't check thoroughly. I think ubuntu schould just work out of the box. Many just aren't interested why. There are some threads around the internet where this problem is solved simply by not using network-manager. wicd is used instead because it just works. WPA is "officialy" supported by intel on windows und it obviously works on linux/ubuntu if network-manager isn't used so I have no doubt that WPA is supported on linux.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971628 Title: Can't use WPA with ipw2200 Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: If some driver implements wext interface and nl80211 interface the latter is preferred. With the ipw2200 driver this implementation doesn't yield any encryption capabilites but the wext interface is never consulted. If the order of the function calls is reversed in wifi-utils.c the problem is solved for me and I dont have a regression with ath5k. --- a/src/wifi/wifi-utils.c 2012-03-01 06:26:37.000000000 +0100 +++ b/src/wifi/wifi-utils.c 2012-04-02 16:01:53.239030963 +0200 @@ -61,12 +61,14 @@ g_return_val_if_fail (iface != NULL, NULL); g_return_val_if_fail (ifindex > 0, NULL); - ret = wifi_nl80211_init (iface, ifindex); + ret = NULL; + + #if HAVE_WEXT + ret = wifi_wext_init (iface, ifindex, check_scan); + #endif if (ret == NULL) { -#if HAVE_WEXT - ret = wifi_wext_init (iface, ifindex, check_scan); -#endif - } + ret = wifi_nl80211_init (iface, ifindex); + } return ret; } To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/971628/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
