Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 438850
Error message when turning encryption off with iwl4965
Last modified: 2008-05-02 16:40:45 EDT
Description of problem: Turning off encryption on Intel 4965 gives an error message. # /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key off Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such file or directory. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless does this, and results in an error message during boot. Running iwconfig under strace shows that the SIOCSIWENCODE ioctl call is returning -1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.24.3-34 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: the error message above Expected results: No error message. Additional info:
FWIW, it would be fair to close this as NOTABUG. That message, while annoying, is merely telling you that you are disabling encryption that was already disabled. But, since I've taken an interest in removing this annoyance upstream and hope to have a patch merged soon, I'll keep this open for now.
Ok, thanks. I reported it because another laptop I have doesn't do that with an older Cisco PCMCIA wireless card so I thought it might be reporting something that wasn't really an error.
Don't get me wrong -- it is annoying! FWIW, it should be gone in -58.fc8 (although you might want to wait for -59.fc8)...