Bug 201993 - wpa network detected as wep
Summary: wpa network detected as wep
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Network Management
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: knetworkmanager (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Will Stephenson
URL:
Keywords:
: 202864 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-07-30 13:22 UTC by Alin M Elena
Modified: 2013-06-18 13:39 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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2009-07-30 21:32 UTC, Andreas Jaeger
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Description Alin M Elena 2009-07-30 13:22:29 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.98)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

My wireless network is detected as wep even if is wpa/psk

here is the iwlist output
alin@blue:~> /usr/sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:1C:F0:67:76:5C
                    ESSID:"ICHEC"
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:3
                    Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
                    Quality=80/100  Signal level:-61 dBm  Noise level=-93 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : CCMP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    IE: Unknown: 2D1A6C101FFFFF000000000000000000000000000004000000000000
                    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:tsf=0000051e13010180
                    Extra: Last beacon: 24ms ago

Alin
Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2009-07-30 17:46:11 UTC
nm-tool shows:
  Wireless Access Points(* = Current AP)
    *DieAJs:         Infra, 00:1C:4A:04:BC:75, Freq 2417 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 41 WPA2

iwlist scan wlan0 shows as well:
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : CCMP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

Btw. the same with Novell network - it should be WPA Enterprise but shows as WPA-PSK. 

Do you have an off-by-one error?
Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2009-07-30 21:32:23 UTC
Created attachment 35738 [details]
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nm-tool reports:
  Wireless Access Points(* = Current AP)
    Brezenbeck:      Infra, 00:12:BF:73:9F:DB, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 57 WPA2
    *DieAJs:         Infra, 00:1C:4A:04:BC:75, Freq 2417 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 44 WPA2
    WLAN-358116:     Infra, 00:23:08:35:81:7A, Freq 2432 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 31 WPA WPA2
    W:               Infra, 00:18:84:10:D9:16, Freq 2422 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 34 WPA WPA2
    W(eierless):     Infra, 00:18:84:10:02:9A, Freq 2417 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 28 WEP

so, the icon for Brezenbeck is wrong, the others look fine.
Comment 3 Will Stephenson 2009-08-11 13:28:49 UTC
*** Bug 202864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Will Stephenson 2009-08-11 13:32:34 UTC
Fixed in SVN by r1009937 - fix bugs in detecting WPA 2 only networks and
consolidate wireless security detection in one place.
Comment 5 Will Stephenson 2009-09-15 12:54:05 UTC
There are still some bugs here.
Comment 6 S. Burmeister 2009-09-15 13:22:59 UTC
Adding the description from the downstream bug.

If the connection to a wpa2 eap network fails, knm4 prompts for the secrets, i.e. opens the settings' security tab again. However it does not show the settings for a wpa eap connection but wpa psk.
Comment 7 Stefan Neufeind 2009-10-04 23:47:33 UTC
using a current svn-snapshot from Fedora (20090930) I saw the network, clicked on it in knetworkmanager (kde4) and got a window asking for details. That was pre-filled with "wep", but changing it to "wpa2 personal" by hand and entering the secrets worked fine it seems. So maybe the gui is just slightly broken (knows it is encrypted, but not the encryption used)?
Comment 8 Stefan Neufeind 2009-10-04 23:54:02 UTC
also see #204113 which sounds related but also is marked as already fixed now
Comment 9 Will Stephenson 2009-10-30 16:37:13 UTC
Should be fixed by r1042754, please test.
Comment 10 bob53181 2013-06-18 13:39:17 UTC
With Fedora 19 and KDE 4.10, I witness the same bug - the connection is shown as WPA2 when running "iwlist scan" and "nm-tool" as well as in the settings but the icon in the network management warns the connection is WEP.