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.
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https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/system-config-network/ticket/19