Apply button disabled when using an ad-hoc network with WPA/WPA2 security

[Philip Peitsch]

When trying to create a new Ad-Hoc network using WPA2 security, the Apply button stays disabled even after putting a password in. I am pretty sure this is the only thing stopping the network from being created, as changing the security option to None re-enables the Apply button. See attached screenshot for clarification.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat Jan 30 13:29:25 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 10.64.64.64 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 114.74.140.189
 169.254.0.0/16 dev ppp0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 10.64.64.64 dev ppp0 proto static
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/nm-connection-editor usr/bin/nm-applet]
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-18.55-generic
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-18-generic i686
WpaSupplicantLog:

[Francisco Villar (villarf)]

Just to be sure, the password has to be at least 8 characters long.

[Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch)]

Yep, I can confirm that the password was shorter than 8 characters. It'd be good to get a specific error message about this limit, as I wasn't aware it existed. Should I re-work this bug to the new "bug" (that no notification was given as to why the apply button was disabled) or open a new somewhere?

Thanks for your help! :)