Bug 373181

Summary: system-config-network breaks wireless encryption configurations if connection is edited
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ken A. <ka>
Component: system-config-networkAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ken A. 2007-11-09 17:21:16 UTC
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Description of problem:
Using Network Manager with iwl3945 wireless on a thinkpad T60. 
To repeat bug:
Remove all network configurations and then reboot.
Create a wireless network config - wlan0 with iwl3945 driver, specifying managed network, ssid, and 128bit wep key beginning with '0x'. The configuration works.
Next, reboot. The configuration still works. Then, if I edit the configuration and view the wep key, then save, without changing anything, the configuration no longer works. /sbin/iwconfig shows that the encryption key has been changed to something else. Reentering the wep key doesn't fix it. Deleting the configuration is the only way to fix it. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.5.svn3030.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. see above
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Actual Results:
see aboce

Expected Results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2007-11-09 19:56:48 UTC
You shouldn't be prefixing the key with 0x.  If you're entering a hex key, be
sure to choose WEP 40/128-bit Hexadecimal Key.  How exactly are you "viewing the
WEP key" and editing the connection?

Comment 2 Ken A. 2007-11-09 20:08:33 UTC
apologies. I'm in the gui system-config-network 1.4.3. This is not network
manager. system-config-network is showing me the wep key, and it requests it
prefaced with 0x. Upon saving after no edits, the configuration breaks.


Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2008-03-31 10:20:53 UTC
How do the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files look like after editing?

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