Comment 17 for bug 101857

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Shane (duairc) wrote : Re: WPA doesn't work with NetworkManager using the bcm43xx driver (works with wpa_supplicant)

Somebody on the Gnome Bugzilla with the same problem posted this:

"Similar problem here, also on an ibook g4 with the bcm43xx driver (debian sid).

 - using wpa_supplicant : it works fine.
 - NetworkManager + entering the "ascii plaintext" password in the dialogue box
: doesn't works.
 - NetworkManager + entering the "hexadecimal string" (generated using the same
password and wpa_passphrase) : it works.

It seems to be a endianess problem, because it works fine with the same
settings (same WPA network+password, debian sid) on a x86 laptop".

I'm not able to test this at this time, but everything else would seem to point to it being an endianness issue. After all, the only reason I (and others) thought the bug was specific to bcm43xx was because that's the card that the iBook uses... but it could just be an endianness issue affecting PowerPC only.