Connect-button greyed out trying to connect to wireless network

[Björn Torkelsson]

Trying to (re)connect to a (eduroam) wireless network using WPA2 Enterprise using certificates the nm-connection-editor pops up. I have previously been connected to the network. Everything except User Certificate, Private Key and Private Key Password is filled in. The connect-button is greyed out. After filling in the missing information (shouldn't i be remembered by the way?) the Connect-button is still greyed out and thus I can't connect to the network.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Fri Oct 9 12:58:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 130.239.46.0/26 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 130.239.46.32 metric 1
 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 130.239.46.1 dev eth0 proto static
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091002t194214.8515a07-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_DK.UTF-8
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64
WpaSupplicantLog:

[Christopher Covington (cov)]

I'm also affected by this, when attempting to create a new connection. It's a pain to have to convert the .p12 files to .pems (because bug #291242 is _not_ fixed) but its really obnoxious that even the PEM certificates work any more.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug #446394. When the "Connect to Hidden..." dialog is displayed and a connection other than "New" selected, the associated secrets are not loaded, which in turn means the "Connect" button is not enabled.

If it turns out that this bug is specific to the specific WPA2/Enterprise configuration, then it should be un-DUP'd.

Same applies to the new upstream Gnome NM bug, although I don't think I have permission to make it a DUP.

[Christopher Covington (cov)]

Just to clarify, this happens to me when key information for the WPA2 network through the regular drop-down list of APs, *not* through the "Connect to Hidden..." dialog. Maybe the WPA2 connection dialog and connect to hidden dialog suffer from the same bug, but bug report #446394 seems to be pretty specifically only about the connect to hidden dialog. Donno if it'd be best to change the title and broaden the scope of the other one, un-dup this bug it or what, though.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Christopher, my mistake... un-DUP'd.

[Christopher Covington (cov)]

Turns out I had an outdated certificate. That means that for me, the real bug is that NM should provide verbose enough feedback to determine this without needing to additional tools.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Can anyone reproduce this in final 9.10 release? There were significant updates made to NM from Jaunty.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

PS: Christopher, can you open a separate report for your issue? ubuntu-bug network-manager-gnome