[opensuse] Network Manager and WPA/PSK with TKIP
Listmates, Tonight I was just reminded why I've been avoiding Network Manager like the plague. Is anyone successfully using Network Manager/KDE4 with a WLAN connection using WPA2-PSK/TKIP? My laptops (work and home) have been using ifup to manage the network connections and connecting to my home wireless network absolutely fine for ages. Tonight I decided to give Network Manager another go on the work laptop because I often have to plug into different networks at work for equipment maintenance purposes and need an easy way of switching between different networks/subnets on the wired ethernet port (which I may have to do several times in a day). We don't use DHCP on any of our networks for security reasons (our network administrator comes from a banking background and has very set ideas on network security which no-one is going to change). Trouble is, as soon as I enable Network Manager I can't connect to my home network which uses WPA2-PSK/TKIP with a 64 character hexadecimal shared key. Network Manager only gives me the following security options: None, LEAP, Dynamic WEP, WEP, WPA/WPA2 Personal (expects a password), WPA/WPA2 Enterprise (expects signed certificates, private key/password etc.). Why can it not use WPA-PSK2 like the ifup method (as configured in Yast2 Network Setup)? Is there something I'm missing here? Running latest KDE 4.4.4, Network Manager 0.9.svn1043876-1.4.1-k586 and an Intel on-board wireless card using the iw3945 driver. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 21:45:20 Rodney Baker wrote:
Listmates,
Tonight I was just reminded why I've been avoiding Network Manager like the plague. Is anyone successfully using Network Manager/KDE4 with a WLAN connection using WPA2-PSK/TKIP?
My laptops (work and home) have been using ifup to manage the network connections and connecting to my home wireless network absolutely fine for ages.
Tonight I decided to give Network Manager another go on the work laptop because I often have to plug into different networks at work for equipment maintenance purposes and need an easy way of switching between different networks/subnets on the wired ethernet port (which I may have to do several times in a day). We don't use DHCP on any of our networks for security reasons (our network administrator comes from a banking background and has very set ideas on network security which no-one is going to change).
Trouble is, as soon as I enable Network Manager I can't connect to my home network which uses WPA2-PSK/TKIP with a 64 character hexadecimal shared key.
Network Manager only gives me the following security options:
None, LEAP, Dynamic WEP, WEP, WPA/WPA2 Personal (expects a password), WPA/WPA2 Enterprise (expects signed certificates, private key/password etc.).
Why can it not use WPA-PSK2 like the ifup method (as configured in Yast2 Network Setup)? Is there something I'm missing here?
Running latest KDE 4.4.4, Network Manager 0.9.svn1043876-1.4.1-k586 and an Intel on-board wireless card using the iw3945 driver.
The really frustrating thing here is that cnetworkmanager (the CLI version) works perfectly as long as KNetworkManager is not running! Connected to the wireless network fine (but that requires manual intervention via a console session). Looks like I'll need to raise a bug/feature request and wait for KNetworkManager to be fixed... Oh, one other really annoying thing - KNetworkManager reports the wired ethernet connection as only running at 10Mb/s instead of 100Mb/s with no way to configure the connection speed. Hmmm - seems KNetworkManager is still rather broken... -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 07/04/2010 08:50 AM, Rodney Baker pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 21:45:20 Rodney Baker wrote:
Listmates,
Tonight I was just reminded why I've been avoiding Network Manager like the plague. Is anyone successfully using Network Manager/KDE4 with a WLAN connection using WPA2-PSK/TKIP?
My laptops (work and home) have been using ifup to manage the network connections and connecting to my home wireless network absolutely fine for ages.
Tonight I decided to give Network Manager another go on the work laptop because I often have to plug into different networks at work for equipment maintenance purposes and need an easy way of switching between different networks/subnets on the wired ethernet port (which I may have to do several times in a day). We don't use DHCP on any of our networks for security reasons (our network administrator comes from a banking background and has very set ideas on network security which no-one is going to change).
Trouble is, as soon as I enable Network Manager I can't connect to my home network which uses WPA2-PSK/TKIP with a 64 character hexadecimal shared key.
Network Manager only gives me the following security options:
None, LEAP, Dynamic WEP, WEP, WPA/WPA2 Personal (expects a password), WPA/WPA2 Enterprise (expects signed certificates, private key/password etc.).
Why can it not use WPA-PSK2 like the ifup method (as configured in Yast2 Network Setup)? Is there something I'm missing here?
Running latest KDE 4.4.4, Network Manager 0.9.svn1043876-1.4.1-k586 and an Intel on-board wireless card using the iw3945 driver.
The really frustrating thing here is that cnetworkmanager (the CLI version) works perfectly as long as KNetworkManager is not running! Connected to the wireless network fine (but that requires manual intervention via a console session).
Looks like I'll need to raise a bug/feature request and wait for KNetworkManager to be fixed...
Don't hold your breath.
Oh, one other really annoying thing - KNetworkManager reports the wired ethernet connection as only running at 10Mb/s instead of 100Mb/s with no way to configure the connection speed.
Hmmm - seems KNetworkManager is still rather broken...
The programmers will get it right one of these releases. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rodney Baker wrote:
Tonight I was just reminded why I've been avoiding Network Manager like the plague. Is anyone successfully using Network Manager/KDE4 with a WLAN connection using WPA2-PSK/TKIP? I don't have a problem using Knetworkmanager with WPA2 & PSK on OpenSUSE 11.0. As for AES or TKIP, IIRC, Knetworkmanager selects it automagically.
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On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 22:39:10 James Knott wrote:
Rodney Baker wrote:
Tonight I was just reminded why I've been avoiding Network Manager like the plague. Is anyone successfully using Network Manager/KDE4 with a WLAN connection using WPA2-PSK/TKIP?
I don't have a problem using Knetworkmanager with WPA2 & PSK on OpenSUSE 11.0. As for AES or TKIP, IIRC, Knetworkmanager selects it automagically.
Please share your secrets :-) (that is, the secret to making it work, not the PSK shared secrets ;-) ). -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Please share your secrets:-) (that is, the secret to making it work, not the PSK shared secrets;-) ). No secret. I selected the network, followed through the panels and
Rodney Baker wrote: plugged in the key and it just worked. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 23:08:34 James Knott wrote:
Rodney Baker wrote:
Please share your secrets:-) (that is, the secret to making it work, not the PSK shared secrets;-) ).
No secret. I selected the network, followed through the panels and plugged in the key and it just worked.
Where? Where do you select WPA-PSK? Where do you enter the shared key? Those options do not appear in my installed version of knetworkmanager. Which gui are you using for it? KDE3/4/Gnome? -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rodney Baker wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 23:08:34 James Knott wrote:
Rodney Baker wrote:
Please share your secrets:-) (that is, the secret to making it work, not the PSK shared secrets;-) ).
No secret. I selected the network, followed through the panels and plugged in the key and it just worked.
Where? Where do you select WPA-PSK? Where do you enter the shared key? Those options do not appear in my installed version of knetworkmanager. Which gui are you using for it? KDE3/4/Gnome?
1) Create a new connection and click on the SSID, then Next. 2) Verify "Use Wireless Security" and "WPA Personal" are selected. Enter key and click on "Connect and Save". 3) Done I have done the above on two computers and at least 5 access points. It always works for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Sonntag, 4. Juli 2010, 14:15:20 schrieb Rodney Baker:
Trouble is, as soon as I enable Network Manager I can't connect to my home network which uses WPA2-PSK/TKIP with a 64 character hexadecimal shared key.
Network Manager only gives me the following security options:
None, LEAP, Dynamic WEP, WEP, WPA/WPA2 Personal (expects a password), WPA/WPA2 Enterprise (expects signed certificates, private key/password etc.).
Running latest KDE 4.4.4, Network Manager 0.9.svn1043876-1.4.1-k586 and an Intel on-board wireless card using the iw3945 driver.
For debugging there is http://userbase.kde.org/NetworkManagement#When_Things_Go_Wrong and in case you changed some config you might have encountered this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226140 If it still does not work, you should file a bug. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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