Somebody on the Gnome Bugzilla with the same problem posted this:
"Similar problem here, also on an ibook g4 with the bcm43xx driver (debian sid).
- using wpa_supplicant : it works fine.
- NetworkManager + entering the "ascii plaintext" password in the dialogue box
: doesn't works.
- NetworkManager + entering the "hexadecimal string" (generated using the same
password and wpa_passphrase) : it works.
It seems to be a endianess problem, because it works fine with the same
settings (same WPA network+password, debian sid) on a x86 laptop".
I'm not able to test this at this time, but everything else would seem to point to it being an endianness issue. After all, the only reason I (and others) thought the bug was specific to bcm43xx was because that's the card that the iBook uses... but it could just be an endianness issue affecting PowerPC only.
Somebody on the Gnome Bugzilla with the same problem posted this:
"Similar problem here, also on an ibook g4 with the bcm43xx driver (debian sid).
- using wpa_supplicant : it works fine.
- NetworkManager + entering the "ascii plaintext" password in the dialogue box
: doesn't works.
- NetworkManager + entering the "hexadecimal string" (generated using the same
password and wpa_passphrase) : it works.
It seems to be a endianess problem, because it works fine with the same
settings (same WPA network+password, debian sid) on a x86 laptop".
I'm not able to test this at this time, but everything else would seem to point to it being an endianness issue. After all, the only reason I (and others) thought the bug was specific to bcm43xx was because that's the card that the iBook uses... but it could just be an endianness issue affecting PowerPC only.