Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 127340
ifup-wireless cannot set multiple wep keys
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:46:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: iwconfig can set up to 4 different key for every wlan adapter but ifup-wireless doesn't support more than one key. this little patch solved my problem: --- initscripts-7.31.13.EL/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless 2002-06-27 19:04:48.000000000 +0200 +++ initscripts-7.31.13.EL/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless.mod 2004-07-06 21:33:20.000000000 +0200 @@ -53,8 +53,12 @@ if [ -n "$RATE" ] ; then iwconfig $DEVICE rate $RATE fi -if [ -n "$KEY" ] ; then - iwconfig $DEVICE key $KEY +if [ -n "$KEY1" -o -n "$KEY2" -o -n "$KEY3" -o -n "$KEY4" ] ; then + [ -n "$KEY1" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [1] $KEY1 + [ -n "$KEY2" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [2] $KEY2 + [ -n "$KEY3" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [3] $KEY3 + [ -n "$KEY4" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [4] $KEY4 + [ -n "$DEFAULTKEY" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [${DEFAULTKEY}] else iwconfig $DEVICE key off fi the key file looks like that: DEFAULTKEY=2 KEY1=bla KEY2=foo KEY3=bar Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.31.13.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. n/a 2. 3. Additional info:
Created attachment 101664 [details] patch to support up to 4 keys
Internal RFE bug #127957 entered.
This problem is resolved in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 4). Red Hat does not currently plan to provide a resolution for this in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux update for currently deployed systems. With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when evaluating changes for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical defects.