[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#667729: Bug#667729: network-manager-gnome: Similar bugs in Fedora and Ubuntu

[Michael Biebl]

On 17.05.2012 05:07, Dylan Thurston wrote:

> 
> Note that all of this is specific to the ipw2200 driver.  If the OP
> does not have that wireless set, then it is likely a different bug.
> 
> The underlying issue (as I understand it) is a kernel bug: when using
> the newer nl80211 interface, it incorrectly reports that the card does
> not support any encryption.  There is a kernel patch fixing that issue
> here:
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg88069.html
> 
> However, you may want to consider putting a workaround in nm-applet as
> well.  There is an Ubuntu PPA that does that here:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~jools/+archive/ipw2200
> 
> Note that there are several other related issues; eg, the connection
> strength doesn't show up in nm-applet.  I don't know if that kernel
> bug has been fixed yet.
> 

If you feel like poking the Debian kernel maintainers about this
particular issue, this would be very much appreciated.


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