No option for WPA in Network Manager even though RALink driver supports it.

[Richie Ward]

My Wireless works fine when I configure it manually from /etc/network/interfaces with:
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
        pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid "router"
        pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode Managed
        pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
        pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
        pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="mypass"
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up

In network-manager/network-manager-gnome I see no option to use WPA.. I only have a option to use WEP.
Support must be put in to allow me to connect to wireless networks with WPA encryption.

I have a Ralink card.. see output from lspci
01:08.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Belkin F5D7000 Wireless G Desktop Network Card
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 177
        Memory at e6004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

I have Edgy and Feisty.. I see this bug on both edgy and feisty.

[Darren Albers (dalbers)]

The RT2500 series cards do not support Wireless Extensions which is how Network Manager communicates with the card. Once they have implemented WEXT support the card will be seen and will use WPA properly. Since this bug doesn't apply to NM but to the RT2500 Driver I would think that this bug should be assigned to the Linux kernel ( I /THINK/ the RT2500 driver is in the kernel now), set to wishlist and linked to a bug upstream with the driver maintainers.

I vaguely recall that they were working towards WEXT support but I am not sure on the status.

[Darren Albers (dalbers)]

It looks like the beta driver does support WEXT:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=5