[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#714389: network-manager: Repeated authentication timeouts with Atheros AR5416 card

[Ehren Brav]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.4.0-10
Severity: normal

I have an Atheros AR5416 wireless card that failed (with endless authentication
requests) to connect to my usual WPA encrypted AP after I upgraded to Wheezy.
I also had a failure to connect to an *unsecured* AP - NetworkManager just
endlessly spun without connecting.  It worked fine under Squeeze in both cases.

I'm using a plain vanilla configuration of NetworkManager, without any wlan0
specifications in /etc/network/interfaces.

I fixed the problem by adding the following standa to
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:

network={
        ssid="my-ssid-name"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        auth_alg=OPEN
        psk="my-passphrase"
        priority=1
}

I'm not sure whether this is a problem with network-manager, ath9k, cfg80211,
or another of the many packages in the wifi chain, so I'm not quite certain
where to start...but I wanted to flag this as a bug since this fix should not
be necessary and is not listed in any of the usual support documentation for
this stuff.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  dpkg                   1.16.10
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.2.dfsg.1-5+deb70u6
ii  libc6                  2.13-38
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100.2-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-5
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.20-7
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-7.2
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.7-4
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.7-4
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.7-4
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.4.0-10
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.4.0-10
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-3
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.3
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  udev                   175-7.2
ii  wpasupplicant          1.0-3+b1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.62-3+deb7u1
ii  iptables      1.4.14-3.1
ii  modemmanager  0.5.2.0-2
ii  policykit-1   0.105-3
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5.1+b1

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla'

-- no debconf information