Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 147305
config cannot set parameters for wireless; WEP scrambled
Last modified: 2008-02-05 11:54:56 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Cannot alter any setting on the Wireless Setting tab of the Wireless Device Configuration without getting an error message. If all the settings are set with iwconfig prior to using system-config-network the WEP is scrambled Even when the key is correctly set (using 0x) (I use a 40 bit key) it gets scrambled into a 96 bit key. Can get the link to work if everything is set using iwconfig, using system-config-network to activate and while this is happening using iwconfig to reset the key. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.3.22-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure device using iwconfig 2. try to activate using system-config-network 3. no link - WEP is now a (random?) 96 bit string Actual Results: No link with wireless device Expected Results: Network link should have been established Additional info: System : Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with Linksys WPC55AG adaptor (PCMCIA) using madwifi-0.0.20050128-1
hmm, please check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-<devicename>
KEY=s:0xF6E2-B565-C0 so it doesn't seem to be recognizing the '0x' as hex and is treating it as a string? David Scriven
well, well, you did not enter the hexstring correctly.. "-" are not part of a number :), ok, partly my fault. Just enter "0xF6E2B565C0" and all should be fine.
Oops! that was stupid on my part - the WEP works now. However, the first problem remains - any attempt to alter the wireless settings results in the message (the example is for set mode Auto, so one can define the channel and rate) Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument. Using iwconfig: "/sbin/iwconfig ath0 Auto" gives the same message so this is a problem with madwifi?? - or is Auto not a valid setting for certain cards?
exactly... auto does not seem to be a valid setting for some cards :-/
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