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No installer support for WPA Enterprise-secured WiFi networks, crashes

Bug #1249295 reported by qwach on 2013-11-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1107935: Support for WPA Enterprise wireless networks. Edit Remove

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This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The installer doesn't give you a full Network Manager prompt when asking to connect to WiFi networks, only a password field (Kubuntu 13.10). This is insufficient for connecting to WPA Enterprise-secured networks. I decided to just try out what happens when you enter a password and try to connect anyway - boom, crash.
Entering a live session, activating the connection there and installing afterwards obviously works, but should be unnecessary.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubiquity 2.15.26
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
Date: Fri Nov 8 10:49:35 2013
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper maybe-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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qwach (qwach) wrote on 2013-11-08:

#1

Casper.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (8.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (103 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDm.txt Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (146.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UpstartUbiquity.txt Edit (394 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2015-06-08:

#2

Fixing bug 1107935 (implementing WPA Enterprise) would be one way of preventing the crash, but not the only way.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-11-09:

#3

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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System76 (salmon76) wrote on 2016-11-09:

#4

oem-config.log Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain)

This bug is confirmed on several System76 computers, including our Meerkat 2 (meer2) desktop, our Lemur 6 (lemu6) laptop and our Gazelle 10 (gaze10) laptop using Intel 8260 and 3165 WiFi cards. From the attached oem-config.log, it looks like there is no error handling for WPA2-Enterprise WiFi access points. Ubiquity then crashes without creating the user.

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System76 (salmon76) wrote on 2016-11-09:

#5

oem-config-2.log Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain)

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System76 (salmon76) wrote on 2016-11-09:

#6

oem-config-3.log Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) wrote on 2017-02-22:

#7

I have added a patch to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1107935 that will fix this issue

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