Bug 300431

Summary: Cannot connect to a wireless network with WEP
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Cameron Meadors <cmeadors>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Description Cameron Meadors 2007-09-21 14:33:43 UTC
I am not able to connect to a wireless netowrk with WEP with NM.  I can connect
using command line tools (ifconfig iwconfig).  NM asks for the key, then it
spins and finally I get the key dialog again.

I think that this is a problem caused by having an old key in my keyring that is
not correct.  I started having the problem when I migrated a home dir from a
Fedora 7 box where wireless worked fine, to a RHEL 5.1 beta box.  About the same
time the wep key changed.

I have checked the key in the key ring and it is not the correct key.  I have
been asked to unlock the keyring, so NM must be looking at the key.

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2008-03-28 18:21:29 UTC
Does NM ever ask you for a new key?  If after entering the new key, does a
successful connection happen?  If a successful connection does happen, is the
new key stored in the keyring?  If the key is wrong and NM can't connect, it
_should_ ask you for a new key by bringing up the wireless key dialog.  If
that's not coming up (yet the applet claims it's waiting for a key) then it
might be bug #223119.

Comment 2 Cameron Meadors 2008-04-03 15:23:03 UTC
This issues was complicated by various suspend resume testing.  I was prompted
for a new key after it failed to connect.  I gave it the correct key and it
still failed.  I deleted the key from gconf and still couldn't connect.  I then
rebooted and tried again.  This time it asked me for the key and connected.

I will have to set up a test env to reproduce since I now have the new key working.

Comment 3 Dan Williams 2009-11-12 21:06:34 UTC
Any idea if you're still seeing this with latest RHEL?  Pretty sure 5.1 still had NM 0.6.x, while we udpated to NM 0.7 in 5.2.  Which would require a retest.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2010-08-09 19:17:29 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.