Comment # 5 on bug 919746 from Freek de Kruijf

(In reply to Larry Finger from comment #3)
> As I said in my E-mail response for this issue, the difference is between
> WPA and WPA2. The encryption is completely different. As far as I know, all
> drivers handle both cases OK, at least with NetworkManager. I have no idea
> what wicked does, nor do I wish to find out.
> 
> The only thing I see in your posting is
> 
> wicked: No valid configuration files found at /etc/wicked/ifconfig
> 
> Perhaps it is able to generate a WPA2 configuration from scratch, but not
> WPA.

In that case this is the bug to be solved. But I doubt that this really is a
problem. I found this message also bug#890570, but does seem to be relevant.

I have another system with a similar USB Wi-Fi dongle, it connects OK to:

          Cell 01 - Address: 00:0C:F6:33:E4:A4
                    ESSID:"xxxxxxx"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.442 GHz (Channel 7)
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:rsn_ie=30140100000fac040100000fac040100000fac020100
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : CCMP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                       Preauthentication Supported
                    Signal level=100/100

It looks as if WPA2 is used but also CCMP which works also with the other AP.
The not working AP is:

          Cell 03 - Address: FC:F5:28:7E:60:1C
                    ESSID:"ProblemAP"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                   
Extra:wpa_ie=dd160050f20101000050f20201000050f20201000050f202
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Signal level=44/100

Here TKIP is mentioned. So maybe that's the problem.

However I used my laptop with 13.2 managed by NM which connected OK with the
ProblemAP.

In the above bug report I noticed wicked commands which indicate how to produce
more debug output. Will try to get more info with that.