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) | #17 |
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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.