WPA Key needs to be re-entered every reboot.

[seema]

The WPA Key is bugged - i must the key by start feed (EVER)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 12 13:09:04 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.20.0.1-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/notebook
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 06:00:47 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Ciarán Mooney (ciaran-mooney)]

Morning,

I don't understand what the problem is? Do you mean that the WPA key diagolgue box to log onto a wireless network doesnt work?

Could you provide a screen shot of the problem?

[seema (sound-vision)]

Hello,

sorry form y bad english.

IN GERMAN

Ich muss bei jeden start von ubuntu den wpa key neu eingeben erst dann komm
ich in das netzwerk. Das Problem habe nicht nur ich.

seema

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Betreff: [Bug 151929] Re: wpa key

Morning,

I don't understand what the problem is? Do you mean that the WPA key
diagolgue box to log onto a wireless network doesnt work?

Could you provide a screen shot of the problem?

** Changed in: ubuntu
       Status: New => Incomplete

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[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Translation for the German:

>> Ich muss bei jeden start von ubuntu den wpa key neu eingeben erst dann komm
>> ich in das netzwerk. Das Problem habe nicht nur ich.

I must re-enter the wpa key after every (re)start of Ubuntu in order to connect to the network. This is a common problem of others too.

[Ciarán Mooney (ciaran-mooney)]

Thanks, thats great.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Ralph Janke <email address hidden> wrote:
> Translation for the German:
>
>
> >> Ich muss bei jeden start von ubuntu den wpa key neu eingeben erst dann komm
> >> ich in das netzwerk. Das Problem habe nicht nur ich.
>
> I must re-enter the wpa key after every (re)start of Ubuntu in order to
> connect to the network. This is a common problem of others too.
>
>
>
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> wpa key
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151929
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Ed (g-launchpad-orthanc-co-nz)]

I'm experiencing the same problem after upgrading to Hardy Heron. Wireless was working fine under Gutsy, however after the upgrade to Hardy the wireless network still appeared to be configured in the Network Settings dialog box however the network wasn't connected. When I re-entered (the same) WPA password the network connected and worked as expected.

Since the initial upgrade, anytime I reboot or disable and re-enable the wireless connection in the Network Settings dialog the wireless returns to the problematic state. I.e. it appears to be configured as before but isn't connected. Re-entering the same WPA passphrase causes the network to work again until next re-start.

As I say, this was working fine under Gutsy, it seems to have broken with the upgrade to Hardy. There's been no change to the hardware of the computer or wireless hub, nor any configuration changes to either side other than the upgrade to Hardy.

I see this bug is currently marked Incomplete. what additional information do I need to provide in order to allow progress on this?

[Antonio (tritemio)]

I'm experiencing this bug too, on ubuntu hardy 8.04.

[Brian Lee (j-brian-lee)]

I too have this problem. What appears to happen is that a new and longer WPA key is automatically generated at each reboot. Entering the original key allows connection.

[steven (stevenback1)]

I found a way to solve this issue as I was have the same one. It might work for you too.

http://ph.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?s=500f5bb2c17426b898f37803b75c9c24&t=731361&page=2

The key point is the sleep command.

After making the changes in post #12 I was good to go.

This is more of a work around than a fix, but it makes me happy :)

Here is a copy of the important parts of that thread for redundancy purposes:

Here is a copy of the /etc/network/interfaces file I was trying:

Code:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto ath0
sleep 20

iface ath0 inet dhcp
wpa-psk 8501.....dcf
wpa-driver wext
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-proto WPA2
wpa-ssid myid

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

If you're entering the WPA key, that implies that you're using network-manager; reassigning to that package since this has nothing to do with wireless-tools.

It's probable that any bugs in Ubuntu 7.10 related to WPA keys are no longer present in Ubuntu 8.10 because network-manager has undergone rapid development since then, so we'll need users seeing this problem to re-test with the latest release.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Anyone still seing this with Intrepid?

[Antonio (tritemio)]

I'm not able to verify since I don't have a WiFi connection ATM.

2009/1/14 Martin Mai <email address hidden>:
> Anyone still seing this with Intrepid?
>
> ** Tags added: encryption-wpa
>
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> WPA Key needs to be re-entered every reboot.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151929
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "network-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> The WPA Key is bugged - i must the key by start feed (EVER)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Oct 12 13:09:04 2007
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
> Package: gnome-panel 1:2.20.0.1-0ubuntu6
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
> ProcCwd: /home/notebook
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-panel
> Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 06:00:47 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!