Bug 123738

Summary: RFE: wireless config lacks authentication
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: cam <camilo>
Component: system-config-networkAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: rawhideCC: mattdm
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: FutureFeature
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-11-13 11:32:16 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description cam 2004-05-20 12:30:01 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040319

Description of problem:
When using wireless with WEP there are two possibilities, open system
or shared key. These relate to the authentication used on the network.

It is possible for a network to refuse access if shared key is required.

It is the default in the driver (orinoco_cs) to use open system.

Consequently the wireless network is not usable and no informative
error message is given.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure network to require authentication (shared key)
2. configure test machine with correct ESSID and KEY
3. note that open system vs. shared key config is not offered
 

Actual Results:  observe that the connection is not working

Expected Results:  1. error message to say that connection was not
possible
2. [suggestion] offer to retry with shared key mode
3. allow user to specify shared key in the first place

Additional info:


The config to enforce shared key is to add the word 'restricted' to
the wireless key.

The only way I can find to do this from the system-config-network GUI
is to enter the wireless key as:

restricted\ fecdba01234568923

where fecdba01234568923 is the key.
Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2005-04-26 15:39:00 UTC 
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for
security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please
reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a
security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or
in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2007-11-13 11:32:16 UTC 
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/system-config-network/ticket/19