Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 217260
NetworkManager doesn't set shared/restricted on WEP key in bcm43xx iface
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:35 EDT
Description of problem: NetworkManager says it is setting SHARED key, but key is not set. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager.x86_64 1:0.6.4-5.fc6 How reproducible: run NetworkManager in a terminal (rather than as daemon). Tell NetworkManager applet to connect to accesspoint that uses shared key WEP Enter key into dialog that pops up, and watch output from terminal window. It says it sets SHARED, sets key, ... Actual results: If you type iwconfig while it is associating, it says key is "open" not "restricted". Fails to connect. Expected results: associated and DHCP success. Additional info: If I manually use iwconfig as follows, rather than NetworkManager, it works: iwconfig eth1 essid myessid key 1234512345 restricted ifconfig eth1 up dhclient and if I do the iwconfig line above before telling NetworkManager to associate with the accesspoint via the applet, it *also works* I suspect (reading the code of nm-ap-security-wep.c that the problem is that the call to make the key "SHARED" occurs prior to the call to set the key, and that this is not stored in the bcm43xx driver. Since I don't know whether there are rules about the order of commands to the wireless extensions, I don't know if this is a bug in NetworkManager or a problem in bcm43xx driver in the kernel.
I believe recent versions of NM handle this correctly and allow you to specify the auth method for WEP. Can you test with NM 0.6.5 or later?
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