Ubuntu
network-manager package

wl-107g no connection using wep

Bug #43425 reported by Miguel Gaspar on 2006-05-07

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #134660: Ralink rt2400 / rt2500 / rt2570 / rt61 / rt73 do not work out of the box in Gutsy/Hardy. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	network-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

I am submitting this bug here even if I am not sure which package to blame...
My rt2500-based Asus WL-107g pc-card doesn't work with network-manager; I can connect to open networks, but not wep-protected ones. The problem ocurred in network-admin.
To circunvent the problem one has to go to the command-line, which I think is what network-manager was supposed to avoid.
The problem is that to connect to my network I have to tell the driver to use 'restricted' mode:
>iwconfig ra0 key restricted
which none of the gui tools do.

Revision history for this message

kbang (kristian-bang) wrote on 2007-04-17:

I see a similar problem on Ubuntu 7.04, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic. The Asus 107g PCMCIA card is detected and is trying to connect but gets no connection. I have tried both no encryption, WEP 64bit encryption, WEP 128bit encryption and WPA-PSK encryption but with no luck. Also i noted that network-manager only showed WEP 64 and WEP 128 encryption and not WPA or no encryption even though the router was configured to no password or WPA-PSK.

Then I uninstalled network-manager and network-manager-gnome, and inserted the following to /etc/network/interfaces:

iface ra0 inet dhcp
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
        pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid "MyRouterName"
        pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode Managed
        pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
        pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
        pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="MySecretPassword
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
auto ra0

and rebooted. The network has worked with no problems for a couple of weeks now. The router is an Asus 500g deluxe and configured to use WPA-PSK.

I would think there is a defect in the network-manager application.

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT2500