Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1815 mails)

[Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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Rodney Baker VK5ZTV
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