Connection to wireless network - wpa

[Helmut Schaa]

Am Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007 schrieben Sie:
> I have collected log messages for both issues - connection to wep wireless
> and disabling scanning. Both are sent in attachment - 'connectTry_log'
> is the output of the logger, 'connectTry_dbus' is the output of
> 'dbus-monitor --system'. Similarly for wireless disabling, in 'disableWL_*'
> I write few marks into them when actions were invoked.
>
> The procedure of wpa connection was - I have wireless enabled, I have
> chosen 'eduroam' network (displayed in knm with lock symbol next to
> the icon and 'encryption protcol: WEP WPA WPA2' in the info box) and
> dialog to choose encryption appeared. However, there was no wpa posibility
> to choose (just WEP-passphrase, WEP-40-1040bit hex and WEP-40-1040bit
> ASCII). Then I canceled the dialog.

Looks like a bug in KNM...
Thanks for pointing it out. I'll have a look at it (perhaps today).

> The procedure of wireless disable was: I have wireless enabled, and I
> have chosen 'Disable wireless' from the Options menu. I think that NM
> still continues with scanning, even when eth1 is not active (not displayed
> in ifconfig). Knm still informs me that net appearing/disappearing.

I can confirm this is a bug too. But it seems like a bug in NetworkManager not 
in KNM as it happens with nm-applet too.

> Is it helpful? I wish you not many bugs until knm 2.0 is released!
+1 ;-)

Regards
Helmut