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network-manager-applet package

Apply button disabled when using an ad-hoc network with WPA/WPA2 security

Bug #514593 reported by Philip Peitsch on 2010-01-30

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

When trying to create a new Ad-Hoc network using WPA2 security, the Apply button stays disabled even after putting a password in. I am pretty sure this is the only thing stopping the network from being created, as changing the security option to None re-enables the Apply button. See attached screenshot for clarification.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat Jan 30 13:29:25 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
10.64.64.64 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 114.74.140.189
169.254.0.0/16 dev ppp0 scope link metric 1000
default via 10.64.64.64 dev ppp0 proto static
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/nm-connection-editor usr/bin/nm-applet]
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-18.55-generic
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-18-generic i686
WpaSupplicantLog:

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Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch) wrote on 2010-01-30:

disabled-apply-wpa.png Edit (27.3 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (13.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Gconf.txt Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (636 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.eth0.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.lo.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.pan0.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.ppp0.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.vboxnet0.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.wlan0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.wmaster0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (960 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
nm-system-settings.conf.txt Edit (313 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Francisco Villar (villarf) wrote on 2010-06-07:

Just to be sure, the password has to be at least 8 characters long.

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Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch) wrote on 2010-06-17:

Yep, I can confirm that the password was shorter than 8 characters. It'd be good to get a specific error message about this limit, as I wasn't aware it existed. Should I re-work this bug to the new "bug" (that no notification was given as to why the apply button was disabled) or open a new somewhere?

Thanks for your help! :)

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Apply button disabled when using an ad-hoc network with WPA/WPA2 security

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