Bug 43049

Summary:	kernel reports to nm that ipw2200.ko supports nl80211 but doesn't report any encryption capabilities.
Product:	Networking	Reporter:	Omar Siam (simar)
Component:	Wireless	Assignee:	Stanislav Yakovlev (stas.yakovlev)
Status:	RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	alan, coreyvelan, florian, jools, stas.yakovlev
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	v3.2.14	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Omar Siam 2012-04-05 12:26:19 UTC

It seems that ipw2200 some sort of automatically supports nl80211 but it doesn't report any encryption capabilities back to userspace or at least not in a way network-manager understands (see nm's src/wifi/wifi-utils-nl80211.c)
I reported this bug to ubuntu developers. They asked me to file this here.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/971628
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/973241

Comment 1 Omar Siam 2012-04-07 19:03:12 UTC

This bug does exist in a kernel compiled from linux-stable.git using tag v3.2.14.

Comment 2 Stanislav Yakovlev 2012-04-11 01:35:07 UTC

Assigning to myself.

Comment 3 Omar Siam 2012-04-11 20:50:58 UTC

The posted patch fixes the problem I reported, but if that's fixed nm still doesn't show the signal strength of the connected network I guess (because once created using some patch nm can connect to this network but doesn't show any signal strength). I'll file another bug if I really run across that problem. Not a show stopper anymore but not working either. As was said: probably will not work
through nl80211.

Comment 4 Florian Mickler 2012-07-01 09:48:45 UTC

A patch referencing this bug report has been merged in Linux v3.5-rc1:

commit a141e6a0097118bb35024485f1faffc0d9042f5c
Author: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 10 21:44:47 2012 -0400

    net/wireless: ipw2x00: add supported cipher suites to wiphy initialization