#8799 HIGH 8.2.1: WPA association issue when attempted from GUI: XO do not respond to first EAPOL frame

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#8799: WPA association issue when attempted from GUI: XO do not respond to first
EAPOL frame
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           Reporter:  carrano      |       Owner:  jcardona     
               Type:  defect       |      Status:  new          
           Priority:  high         |   Milestone:  8.2.1        
          Component:  wireless     |     Version:  not specified
         Resolution:               |    Keywords:               
        Next_action:  communicate  |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:               |   Blockedby:               
           Blocking:               |  
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Comment(by colin):

 Hi,

 Try deleting /home/olpc/.sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg.
 Do you still see WPA networks show up without the padlock?

 P.S. I have a patch to NetworkManager which improves the frequency with
 which association works. It's not perfect yet, though. There is still
 apparently some mechanism by which NM can become convinced that a WPA
 network is an unprotected network.

 Colin

 Replying to [comment:10 mbletsas]:
 > Using Ubuntu 8.04 on an XO (with the OLPC kernel from build 767), I
 observe that Network Manager doesn't always report the encryption on our
 WPA-PSK ESSIDs properly (networks show in the list without the encryption
 padlock). An attempt to associate with the WPA-PSK network fails in that
 case.
 >
 > The problem is intermittent. If the network is listed as encrypted,
 attempting to associate with it succeeds.
 >
 > The problem seems to be in NM's parsing of the encryption info since
 iwlist scan reports the correct information for the WPA-PSK ESSIDs
 >

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