[Feisty]knetworkmanager hangs on activation stage when connecting to WAP, WEP

[Colin Pinkney]

Binary package hint: knetworkmanager

Just trying out the Kubuntu Feisty Fawn Beta 1 Live CD and while knetworkmanager found my wireless access point straight away, when I tried to connect to it by clicking on the WAP and definitely entered the correct WEP key, it gets stuck at the activation stage 'Configuring device' (28% on the progress bar). No connection is established and it eventually stops trying to connect and returns to disconnected status. The only lines that appear in /var/log/messages during all this are the following:

Mar 25 21:26:27 ubuntu dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/ra0 for sub-path ra0.dbus.get.reason
Mar 25 21:28:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 490.194296] RT61: RfIcType= 3

Wireless PCI card: Belkin using RaLink RT61 chipset
Driver: rt61
Network Interface: ra0
WAP Encryption: 128bit WEP

I didn't have to change anything for my wireless PCI card to start working and detect my WAP. I know the rt61 driver is working properly as I am posting this bug from the beta Live CD having configured a static Wireless connection via the Network Settings dialog in System Settings (which is an achievement in itself as I have never had wireless working in Linux before, out of the box at least and without having to hack anything at the command line. Well done!).

[Colin Pinkney (colin-pinkney)]

Just to add, I still get the same issue with the final release of the Kubuntu Feisty live CD. :(

[ivan (igotelli)]

I have the same problem with knetworkmanager.
I have a Broadcom BCM4318 wireless card, I used the bcm43xx-fwcutter to make the card work.
When I use my modem whithout WPA security and is not hidden, knetworkmanager connects without problems, but with the encryption on and with hidden essid, it just stops at 28%.

Wireless Card : Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [Airforce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Network Interface : eth1
WAP Encryption: TSKIP (Personal WAP)

[Sam (samstep)]

I can confirm I am having the same problem - knetworkmanager hangs at 28% when trying to connect to a wireless network using Linksys WMP54G wireless PC card (RT61 chispset).

rt61 driver was not working in Beta and is still not working with Release - such a shame that Kubuntu 7.04 was released with such a serious bug.

[Colin Pinkney (colin-pinkney)]

The rt61 driver works fine for me with my Wireless Belkin PCI card. It is KNetworkManager than cannot establish a connection on my PC.

I can setup a static wireless connection with WEP enabled just fine when using the Network Settings under System Settings in KDE so there is nothing wrong with the drivers as far as I can see.

[Jaap Woldringh (jjh-woldringh)]

Are you using WPA or WEP? And what is WAP?

These are different, so if you use WPA with a WEP key, no success is what is to be expected.

Jaap

[Colin Pinkney (colin-pinkney)]

WAP = Wireless Access Point

As stated, I am using WEP encryption and this works out of the box in Feisty with the Network Settings applet in the KDE System Settings and creating a static connection. When I put the exact same WEP key into KNetworkManager with the connection down and not configured statically, it just stops at 28%.

[Baggage (angrywater08)]

I am having the same problem, though haven't yet tried making a static connection in KDE System Settings.
I made a report that turned out to be a duplicate. Though mine is with the Ralink RT2500 driver.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110259

[tekg (oldskewlcool)]

100% confirmed bug, affect my system running ndiswrapper 1.34, Dell wireless 1500 and Kubuntu 7.04. As a workaround you can try to connect to another wireless network (WEP enabled) and then when it gets past 50% on that try, try again to access your desired network. For me this works.

TERRIBLE QUALITY CONTROL KDE PPL. Knetworkmanager SHOULD !!!!!!NOT!!!!! have been released. Shame as it completely RUINS the kde experience. Not to mention it ALSO unistalls the only WORKING wlan util, wlanassistant. This is one of the primary reasons linux will never become mainstream, a pure lack of quality control. How could you expect anyone to run this product when a feature 98% of new users will use is flat BROKEN??? If this simple type of issue can't be fixed I can only imagine when the battery life situation will improve (read: windows = 100% more battery life than nix :( )

[Colin Pinkney (colin-pinkney)]

Since posting this bug report I have replaced my PC with a Toshiba Satellite P200-155 laptop. Kubuntu Feisty installed effortlessly and most things work out of the box, including the wireless (Intel 3945ABG) and KNetworkManager works fine with the same wireless access point using exactly the same settings!! Go figure...

Maybe the wireless extensions are different between drivers and networkmanager is having trouble enabling encryption on some???

[Timmmm (tdhutt)]

Tried this with nm-applet and knetworkmanager and both show this bug. If I use iwconfig then dhclient it works perfectly.

[arhhook (arhhook)]

When I try to connect to a WPA secured network broadcasting an SSID at my house, it connects just fine. When I come to work with a WEP secured network with a hidden SSID, I am unable to connect - it sticks at "Activation stage: configuring device" 28%.

[arhhook (arhhook)]

Shoot, I forgot to specify that I'm using IPW3945 ...

[Ruben van Royen (ruben-guidedbees)]

For me, knetworkmanager also stops at 28%, but not always, sometimes it just works. Also, sometimes it helps to connect to the neighbours open access point.

I use a wpa encrypted network with a bcm4318 based adapter using ndiswrapper. I don't have the version of ndiswrapper at hand, but it is newer than the one shipped with feisty, which doesn't work at all. I also tried with the bcm43xx driver, which also works sometimes, but the ndiswrapper seems more reliable.

Btw, I also have a problem that sometimes knetworkmanager starts building a connection, but then the icon disappears from the tray. It also did this with edgy. The only option when this happens is to kill it and restart it.

[stdPikachu (sdottait)]

Same problem here; ipw3945 on eth1 will always hang at 28% when attempting to connect to a WPA/WPA2 network (with or without hidden SSID). Connects to the neighbours unencrypted connection just fine, but obviously that's not much use to me ;)

Is there a command I can enter to try and replicate this connection manually?

[shindekokoro (shindekokoro)]

Still Having problem, i posted a new bug report. Maybe will get attention....

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

Hello,

Do you have this problem in Ubuntu Gutsy?

[arhhook (arhhook)]

For now, I've made the switch back to Windows, actually. in Gutsy, I did not have that problem. I just didn't have the hardware support that I do yet. I am still a tremendous fan, it just doesn't work for me and this particular laptop as of now. Thanks!

-Anthony

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> Hello,
>
> Do you have this problem in Ubuntu Gutsy?
>
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[shindekokoro (shindekokoro)]

Yes, I am having this problem with Gusty. I only seem to have the problem when I was using the firmware cutter, when I use ndiswrapper no problem.

[Ruben van Royen (ruben-guidedbees)]

Op Saturday 26 January 2008 03:35:25 schreef Javier Jardón:
> Hello,
>
> Do you have this problem in Ubuntu Gutsy?

No, problem was with Feisty and Eft (and maybe initial release of Gutsy, but I
do not remember), seems to be gone now.
Still, sometimes the connection is dropped and when it does, I cannot revive
it except by a reboot. However, I doubt this is an issue with knetworkdaemon,
probably with the underlying ndiswrapper or the driver contained within.

It is unfortunate, however, that when the connection drops, knetworkmanager
does not see this. (Probably because it is not updated by the driver, but
still...)

Kind regards,

Ruben

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

This seems to be a driver problem related bug.

The issue should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the actively developed release. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

[Stefan Freyr (stefan-freyr)]

I'm getting the same thing on 8.04 (Hardy Heron) RC while trying to connect to a WEP protected wireless network.

I'm attaching a file containing the relevant output of lshw (I'm using an intel wireless network card which uses the iwl4965 driver).

If there's anyone who knows of a workaround for this, please post it here.

Kind regards, Stefan Freyr.

[Stefan Freyr (stefan-freyr)]

Just a minor thing:

I tried using wlassistant to connect and that went fine.

Regards, Stefan.

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

Can you try Hardy final to test this issue?

Thank you.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Resetting status pending report(s) for 8.04.1 (and/or 8.10 alpha/beta).

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Ruben van Royen (ruben-guidedbees)]

Javier Jardón wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: knetworkmanager (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Javier Jardón (torkiano) => (unassigned)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
Hi Javier,

I currently have no issues with the wireless function in Ubuntu.

Regards,

Ruben

[Sam (samstep)]

I can confirm that this bug is gone in version 8.10.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Javier Jardón" <email address hidden>
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Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:41 PM
Subject: [Bug 96097] Re: [Feisty]knetworkmanager hangs on activation
stagewhen connecting to WAP, WEP

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

** Changed in: knetworkmanager (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Javier Jardón (torkiano) => (unassigned)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Reported fixed.

[Epson (epson-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm having this problem with Kubuntu 8.04 when using WPA Personal.
The knetwork manager hangs at 28% when trying to connect to the wireless network.

[Epson (epson-deactivatedaccount)]

Also, I'm using TKIP with a hidden ssid and Broadcom BCM4312
I'm able to get this same laptop to work with Ubuntu 8.04.