#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):

 Replying to [comment:12 mbletsas]:
 > Replying to [comment:11 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
 > >
 > Colin,
 >
 > There is no sugar networks default file to delete in my setup (vanilla
 ubuntu with just the OLPC kernel).
 > It is interesting that the padlock comes back and forth and it seems to
 only happen in WPA networks (not WPA2 or WEP)
 >
 > M.

 Hi,

 This is a long shot, but... Do you have any access points with the same
 SSID? There is a known flaw in NetworkManager 0.6.xx where different
 access points with different security settings but the same SSID can be
 merged. The flaw is in the public API of NetworkManager and is not
 corrected until the 0.7 series.

 Also... can you try my patch and see if the problem still appears? I
 posted it here.
 I can re-generate it for the slightly newer version of NM that you have,
 if you want.

 Colin

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