Latest update of plasma-widget-network-manager causes it to fail to connect to WPA2 network

[Michael Marley]

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-network-manager

After the latest update of plasma-widget-network-manager on a vanilla Karmic install, it fails to connect to my WPA2-secured wireless network. It tries to connect, but fails and eventually asks for the password again. Looking in dmesg shows that the connection is being deauthenticated because of Reason 9. It just sits there and tries continually until I stop it. It has no problem, however, with connecting to an unsecured network. Also, reverting to the old version works around the problem.

[Michael Marley (mamarley)]

I forgot to mention, my wireless card is an Intel 4965, but I don't think it is causing the problem.

[Michael Marley (mamarley)]

I found that if I build the package for Jaunty (using pbuilder) and then install it on my Karmic system, it works fine.

[Wladimir Mutel (mwg)]

I get the same behaviour with ath5k driver. The workaround is to remove KDE/Plasma network manager and run nm-applet instead (don't forget to keep network-manager-gnome package installed on your system). nm-applet works well for me.

[Per Hermansson (hermansson-per)]

Michael, would it be possible to test the new version in Karmic and attach your /var/log/daemon.log (only lines starting with Network Manager are interesting for me) since I've created some patches in the Karmic version that was suppose to help connecting to WPA2 networks.

[Michael Marley (mamarley)]

OK, here it is. Sorry for the delay. The last failure (the part about the user failing to provide secrets) was caused when I cancelled the connection.

[Michael Marley (mamarley)]

I just tried doing a fresh reinstall from the Karmic daily builds, and the problem occurs with the fresh system as well.

[Michael Marley (mamarley)]

Still happening with the latest SVN build that just got released for Karmic. This is quite an annoying bug for me, because it causes Plasma to crash every 2nd time my PC resumes from suspend after having been connected to a wireless network that is no longer in range.