Bug 104006

Summary:	Can't start wirless network with WEP key
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	James Ots <novellbugzilla>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description James Ots 2005-08-10 23:21:57 UTC

When I try to start a wireless network using a shared WEP key, it says there 
are errors in lines 6 and 8 (but doesn't say which files - turns out it's 
in /var/run/wpa_supplicant-wlansomething) - has a line 'wep_tx_keyid' which it 
says is wrong. I changed the ifup-wireless script to 'wep_tx_keyidx' but it 
still didn't work for me.

Comment 1 Joachim Gleissner 2005-08-11 08:33:13 UTC

The wep_tx_keyid typo is already fixed for beta2. Please add more information,  
'hwinfo --netcard' output, /var/log/messages, description of the WLAN setup  
(authentication mode, WEP key length, etc).

Comment 2 James Ots 2005-08-13 09:51:54 UTC

Can you confirm that the line saying 'wep_tx_keyid' should just have an x 
added to the end of the line? Then I'll have a go again, and give you some 
more info.

Comment 3 Joachim Gleissner 2005-08-15 08:35:24 UTC

Yes. You can change it in /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-wireless (lines 
472 and 480).

Comment 4 James Ots 2005-08-21 09:51:12 UTC

I've just installed beta2 and the wep_tx_keyid type wasn't fixed. So I fixed   
that, and my wireless connection still didn't come up. But I've found the  
problem. In the print_key() function  
in /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-wireless, it only checks if the key  
starts with s or h. My key is just a plain hex key, so it is ignored. I changed  
the end of that function to be:  
  
            fi 
        else  
            echo $K  
        fi  
    fi 
} 
  
and now it comes up fine. 
 
And just for completeness, here's the output from 'hwinfo --netcard': 
 
24: PCI 700.0: 0280 Network controller 
  [Created at pci.271] 
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320 
  Unique ID: PL6s.4vOL+XxPdUE 
  Parent ID: 7VdT.dEbULwVSPE4 
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:01.1/0000:07:00.0 
  SysFS BusID: 0000:07:00.0 
  Hardware Class: network 
  Model: "Belkin F5D7010 54g Wireless Network card" 
  Hotplug: CardBus 
  Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" 
  Device: pci 0x4320 "BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" 
  SubVendor: pci 0x1799 "Belkin" 
  SubDevice: pci 0x7010 "Belkin F5D7010 54g Wireless Network card" 
  Revision: 0x03 
  Driver: "ndiswrapper" 
  Device File: wlan1 
  Features: WLAN 
  Memory Range: 0xf6000000-0xf6001fff (rw,non-prefetchable) 
  IRQ: 11 (46350 events) 
  HW Address: 00:30:bd:fb:fd:84 
  Link detected: yes 
  WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 
  WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 
2.462 2.467 2.472 2.484 
  WLAN bitrates: 6 9 12 18 35 1 16 
  WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 
  WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap 
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 
  Attached to: #22 (CardBus bridge)

Comment 5 Joachim Gleissner 2005-08-25 16:09:13 UTC

The typo was only fixed for open authentication mode, not for shared key,  
sorry for that. This and the other bug you report should be fixed with beta3.