Bug 220982 - knetworkmananger forgets its WEP keys if association times out
Summary: knetworkmananger forgets its WEP keys if association times out
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: knetworkmanager
Version: 6
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dennis Gilmore
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-12-29 22:12 UTC by Carl Roth
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-07-19 19:27:13 UTC
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Description Carl Roth 2006-12-29 22:12:05 UTC
Description of problem:

If knetworkmanager isn't able to associate with a WEP-protected access point
before its internal timeout is exceeded, it forgets its WEP key and asks for
another one.  This means that knetworkmanager is destroying user profile data in
the presence of intermittent network faults.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

NetworkManager-0.6.4-5.fc6
knetworkmanager-0.1-0.5.svn20061113.fc6

How reproducible:

Always (assuming the network fault is in effect).  A "network fault" that would
prevent access point authentication would include things like

1. invalid (or trivially mis-spelled) WEP key
2. transient device layer problems (see BUG220980).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable knetworkmanager
2. Attempt to connect to a flaky access point
3.
  
Actual results:

knetworkmanager times out, and deletes its WEP key.

Expected results:

1. knetworkmanager should have a configurable timeout
2. knetworkmanager should offer to re-associate using the saved WEP key

Additional info:

A workaround for the issue is as follows:

1. cancel the WEP key dialog
2. quit knetworkmanager
3. restart knetworkmanager

Comment 1 Dennis Gilmore 2006-12-31 18:49:03 UTC
Do you have kwalletmanager setup and running?  all keys are stored in your 
encrypted wallet. I have not seen this problem  and i have keys stored for 
multiple networks  and i can switch between them all with out this issue.

Comment 2 Carl Roth 2006-12-31 19:00:27 UTC
I am using kwalletmanager, yes.

As I noted in my workaround, if I cancel the WEP dialog and restart
knetworkmanager, it's able to read the saved passphrase again from kwalletmanager.

The bug here is that, after the association fails, knetworkmanager shows its
dialog *without* the saved WEP key.  If you proceed with the dialog, it
erases/overwrites the previous key from kwalletmanager.


Comment 3 Dennis Gilmore 2007-07-19 19:27:13 UTC
knetworkmanager is assuming that you have an incorrect password. and prompting
for a new one.  if it was made to just use the old one always you would then
need to go into kwalletmanager if you change your wep id.  I believe it is doing
the correct and intended behavior.  If you adimitly think it should be changed
please file a bug in KDE's bug system

Comment 4 Carl Roth 2007-07-19 21:39:28 UTC
This is now being tracked on bugs.kde.org as BUG148039.  I do think that it's a
bug, but I won't necessarily hold RedHat/Fedora responsible for it.



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