From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031118 Description of problem: The network configuration tool does not allow me to specify multiple wireless keys for an interface, i.e. I can not do the following using the graphical configuration: # iwconfig eth1 key 0123456789 [1] # iwconfig eth1 key 1234567890 [2] # iwconfig eth1 key 2345678901 [3] # iwconfig eth1 key 3456789012 [4] # iwconfig eth1 key [2] The configuration tool assumes that only one key is needed. While this is visible as a bug in the config tool a quick glance at the ifup-wireless script reveals that it is not capable of handling multiple keys. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.3.10-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. redhat-config-network 2. 3. Actual Results: See above Expected Results: See above Additional info: See above
I've been wondering, what is the purpose of having multiple keys when it seems that only one at a time works, and you need to change the current active key manually?
I am not 100% positive on the reason, I suspect it has something to do with a 'stronger' version of WEP. I do know first hand that it is necessary - there is one network I use which will not let me on if I do not have all four keys configured. This is the reason I entered a 'bug' in the first place.
Hi Harald, thanks for accepting this case. Do you have a rough idea when you might have something available for testing/use? This is almost a showstopper for me since it is the only way I can use wireless at my company. Any information on an expected release date you can provide would be helpful. Thanks.
I have some more information which may be helpful and hopefully will answer Warren's question posted on 5/11/2004. I have found that when using WEP keys where the active key is not the first key I need to set all the keys and then tell iwconfig which key to use. For some reason just inputting the active key does not work. Hopefully this explains why?
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/system-config-network/ticket/22