[hardy] ifup fails to trigger association with WEP access points
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wireless-tools (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ifupdown
I've been debugging a customer problem with a MID device in which they report that Manual Configuration of WEP access points doesn't work ( ie. my device doesn't associate with the AP, and thus never comes online ).
I have no problems connecting to the same access point using NetworkManager / nm-applet.
It's taken me awhile, but I've finally traced Manual Configuration of Wireless from the gnome-system-tools application network-admin to liboob, to system-
I've also had most of the people in my office ( Canonical Lexington ) try the same scenario, and so far, nobody else has been able to get Manual Configuration / WEP to work either, so this is not a problem specific to the device ( or driver ) we're working with. FYI, the driver in question has it's own problems... it's the Marvell sd8686 driver ported by Intel.
I've also tried manually running ifup with the same interfaces stanzas that network-admin produces, which is why I'm adding this as an ifupdown bug.
The version of ifupdown on the system's I've tested is 0.6.8ubuntu8.
Here's what my /etc/network/
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auto lo
iface l0 inet loopback
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-key s:FAKEKEYFORWEP
wireless-essid UbuntuTest
auto wlan0
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Note -- I've tried this with a Macbook Pro ( Santa Rosa ) running madwifi, a Sony Vaio using an ipw2x00 card, a ThinkPad running madwifi 0.9.4, and none of them work.
affects: | ifupdown (Ubuntu) → wireless-tools (Ubuntu) |
That configuration looks valid (except for "iface l0" which I assume is a typo), though it's possible that additional configuration is required which NM is doing automatically.
Are you able to get the interface up and running manually using iwconfig on wlan0? If so, which options do you use? the wireless-* options just call out to iwconfig with the corresponding options.