Bug 877405

Summary:	LiveGUI net-wireless/wpa_supplicant lacks support for tkip so can't connect to wifi AP
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	russelld <russell.davie>
Component:	LiveCD/DVD/USB	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	bkohler
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description russelld 2022-10-17 08:35:30 UTC

wpa_supplicant requires tkip support in order to connect to wifi modem-router Dlink DSL-3900
With out tkip, the LiveGUI USB cannot connect this device which makes the LiveGUI useless for wifi networking. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot off USB
2. bring up network-manager via nm-applet
3. can't see network that is broadcast from DSL-3900
Actual Results:  
see above in "Steps to Reproduce"

Expected Results:  
if tkip support was in wpa_supplicant then laptop would connect to DSL-3900

Please add tkip support to net-wireless/wpa_supplicant so the LiveGUI USB can be used to connect to wifi modem routers that require this.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2022-11-11 13:21:56 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/releng.git/commit/?id=27cf362e2404151ff527a0cbeade70d3deef9f2f

commit 27cf362e2404151ff527a0cbeade70d3deef9f2f
Author:     Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-11-11 13:20:54 +0000
Commit:     Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-11-11 13:20:54 +0000

    portage/livegui: enable tkip on wpa_supplicant
    
    Since livegui users can't opt to rebuild this themselves to add tkip as
    needed, let's just enable it.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/877405
    
    Signed-off-by: Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org>

 releases/portage/livegui/package.use/wpa_supplicant | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comment 2 russelld 2022-12-03 03:10:27 UTC

Confirming that LiveUSB livegui-amd64-20221122T220204Z.iso
 was able to connnect a laptop to wifi-modem requiring tkip
 thanks!