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Luis Orlindo Tedeschi | 5 Jul 22:13

Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

This is how it goes... Networkmanager was working fine until I did the
first update of the system. From that day on, it seems to me NM ignores
the WEP key and keeps asking for the secrets again and again and again
and does not connect wireless. I already checked the key several times.
NM does find the wireless router (linksys) without problems. Does anyone
know how to reset NM and start over or does any one could shed some
light into this "black box"? Thanks a lot. Luis

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Nicolae Ghimbovschi | 5 Jul 22:24

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

It is a bug in  wpa_supplicant , see this  Bugzilla Bug 453390: wifi
problems with kernel 2.6.25.9-74
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453390 .

Use the previous kernel, until  kernel-2.6.25.9-81.fc9 rolls out .

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Luis Orlindo Tedeschi
<luis.tedeschi <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> This is how it goes... Networkmanager was working fine until I did the
> first update of the system. From that day on, it seems to me NM ignores
> the WEP key and keeps asking for the secrets again and again and again
> and does not connect wireless. I already checked the key several times.
> NM does find the wireless router (linksys) without problems. Does anyone
> know how to reset NM and start over or does any one could shed some
> light into this "black box"? Thanks a lot. Luis
>
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Kevin J. Cummings | 5 Jul 22:30

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
> It is a bug in  wpa_supplicant , see this  Bugzilla Bug 453390: wifi
> problems with kernel 2.6.25.9-74
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453390 .
> 
> Use the previous kernel, until  kernel-2.6.25.9-81.fc9 rolls out .

Any idea when this broke?  I saw this a couple of weeks ago on 
2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 ....  But, I'm no longer there, so I can't test 
it....

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Nicolae Ghimbovschi | 5 Jul 22:35

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

With kernel version 2.6.25.9-74

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings <at> kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
>>
>> It is a bug in  wpa_supplicant , see this  Bugzilla Bug 453390: wifi
>> problems with kernel 2.6.25.9-74
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453390 .
>>
>> Use the previous kernel, until  kernel-2.6.25.9-81.fc9 rolls out .
>
> Any idea when this broke?  I saw this a couple of weeks ago on
> 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 ....  But, I'm no longer there, so I can't test
> it....
>
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Kevin J. Cummings | 5 Jul 22:37

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
> With kernel version 2.6.25.9-74

I'm talking about the WEP problem, not the WPA problem.  WPA connection 
works for me on this older kernel, but not WEP.  That's why I was 
wondering if it was the same problem or not.

> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
> <cummings <at> kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>> Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
>>> It is a bug in  wpa_supplicant , see this  Bugzilla Bug 453390: wifi
>>> problems with kernel 2.6.25.9-74
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453390 .
>>>
>>> Use the previous kernel, until  kernel-2.6.25.9-81.fc9 rolls out .
>> Any idea when this broke?  I saw this a couple of weeks ago on
>> 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 ....  But, I'm no longer there, so I can't test
>> it....
>>
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Nicolae Ghimbovschi | 5 Jul 22:55

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

Sorry , I don't know.

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings <at> kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
>>
>> With kernel version 2.6.25.9-74
>
> I'm talking about the WEP problem, not the WPA problem.  WPA connection
> works for me on this older kernel, but not WEP.  That's why I was wondering
> if it was the same problem or not.
>
>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
>> <cummings <at> kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It is a bug in  wpa_supplicant , see this  Bugzilla Bug 453390: wifi
>>>> problems with kernel 2.6.25.9-74
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453390 .
>>>>
>>>> Use the previous kernel, until  kernel-2.6.25.9-81.fc9 rolls out .
>>>
>>> Any idea when this broke?  I saw this a couple of weeks ago on
>>> 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 ....  But, I'm no longer there, so I can't test
>>> it....
>>>
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Luis Orlindo Tedeschi | 6 Jul 18:09

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

Would the WPA problem affect the WEP?

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 23:24 +0300, Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
> It is a bug in  wpa_supplicant , see this  Bugzilla Bug 453390: wifi
> problems with kernel 2.6.25.9-74
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453390 .
> 
> Use the previous kernel, until  kernel-2.6.25.9-81.fc9 rolls out .
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Luis Orlindo Tedeschi
> <luis.tedeschi <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is how it goes... Networkmanager was working fine until I did the
> > first update of the system. From that day on, it seems to me NM ignores
> > the WEP key and keeps asking for the secrets again and again and again
> > and does not connect wireless. I already checked the key several times.
> > NM does find the wireless router (linksys) without problems. Does anyone
> > know how to reset NM and start over or does any one could shed some
> > light into this "black box"? Thanks a lot. Luis
> >
> > --
> > Luis Orlindo Tedeschi <luis.tedeschi <at> gmail.com>
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Kevin J. Cummings | 6 Jul 19:42

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

Luis Orlindo Tedeschi wrote:
> Would the WPA problem affect the WEP?

(For those who have forgotten, my laptop is running F9 x86_64. 
Up-to-date through yum daily.  It has ipw3945 hardware, and I'm using 
the iwl3945 wifi drivers.)

I read through *all* the duplicate bugs and the comments in 453390, and 
many people claimed that while WPA/WPA2 was whacked, WEP still worked 
for them.  The general claim is that it was a bug in wpa_supplicant.  If 
so, it should have *no* effect on WEP, which is implemented elsewhere 
(isn't it?).

I find this really strange, because, I booted the new .9-76 kernel 
yesterday, and it connected to my AP right away.  My AP is a wrt54g, 
V3.0, still running its original firmware.  And I'm using WPA-AES 
encryption, (though I've been thinking of moving to WPA-TKIP and maybe 
changing my channel B^).  This appears to be the opposite behaviour from 
everyone who did a me2 on that bug report!  What works for them fails 
for me, and what fails for them works for me.  Really strange.

2-3 weeks ago, I took a long holiday away from home.  Brought the laptop 
with me because the inn claimed to have free WiFi.  In fact, they had a 
small Airport AP running 40-bit WEP.  (while I was still running the 
.6-55 kernel) NetworkManager found the AP just fine, but wouldn't 
connect.  It just kept re-prompting me for the passphrase.  Well, 
actually, it had encoded the passphrase and prompted me to reenter the 
encrypted 40/128 bit encoding, which was a hex string.  Nothing I tried 
would connect.  So, when I retired to my room for the night, to my 
surprise, the laptop found the open wireless from the house across the
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Christopher A. Williams | 6 Jul 22:30

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:42 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Luis Orlindo Tedeschi wrote:
> > Would the WPA problem affect the WEP?
> 
> (For those who have forgotten, my laptop is running F9 x86_64. 
> Up-to-date through yum daily.  It has ipw3945 hardware, and I'm using 
> the iwl3945 wifi drivers.)

I'm running  F9 x86_64 as well with the same wireless adapter. You're
not alone.

My WPA router at home connects up immediately and always has. WEP, OTOH,
has been so bad for me that my laptop locks up hard when trying to
connect to my church's 128-bit WEP network. I can only do a hard reset
to get anything working.

Any attempt to connect to a WEP router fails - and usually with a hard
system lockup.

> 
> So, maybe I don't know what the bug is, but maybe its related to 
> WPA/WPA2, but not WPA-AES?
> 
> And I have no clue as what's wrong with WEP, as a lot of the people 
> commenting on the bug claims they have no problems using WEP!
> 
> So, here I am, not a general user of WEP, having problems getting it to 
> work at all.  Its not one of my "standard" setups.  I only expect to use 
> it rarely.  But, I expect it to work when I do, so when it doesn't, it 
> makes it really hard to fix (How do you fix your internet connection
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Kevin J. Cummings | 6 Jul 23:30

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:42 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> Luis Orlindo Tedeschi wrote:
>>> Would the WPA problem affect the WEP?
>> (For those who have forgotten, my laptop is running F9 x86_64. 
>> Up-to-date through yum daily.  It has ipw3945 hardware, and I'm using 
>> the iwl3945 wifi drivers.)
> 
> I'm running  F9 x86_64 as well with the same wireless adapter. You're
> not alone.
> 
> My WPA router at home connects up immediately and always has. WEP, OTOH,
> has been so bad for me that my laptop locks up hard when trying to
> connect to my church's 128-bit WEP network. I can only do a hard reset
> to get anything working.
> 
> Any attempt to connect to a WEP router fails - and usually with a hard
> system lockup.
> 
>> So, maybe I don't know what the bug is, but maybe its related to 
>> WPA/WPA2, but not WPA-AES?
>>
>> And I have no clue as what's wrong with WEP, as a lot of the people 
>> commenting on the bug claims they have no problems using WEP!
>>
>> So, here I am, not a general user of WEP, having problems getting it to 
>> work at all.  Its not one of my "standard" setups.  I only expect to use 
>> it rarely.  But, I expect it to work when I do, so when it doesn't, it 
>> makes it really hard to fix (How do you fix your internet connection 
>> when you can't get it to work????)  How am I supposed to then google for
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Tim | 7 Jul 01:06

Re: Networkmanager seems to ignore WEP code

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:42 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> (How do you fix your internet connection when you can't get it to
> work????)  How am I supposed to then google for the answers?! 

That's the general problem with the LACK of documentation with Network
Manager.  What little there is, is on the web, not installed on your
computer.  And what there is, is mostly supposition by users, rather
than facts by the programmers.

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