Bug 113758

Summary: WEP setup wlan card tries to use WPA
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Marcus Meissner <meissner>
Component: Mobile DevicesAssignee: Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 3   
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Attachments: ifcfg-wlan-id-00:09:5b:ee:1d:8b

Description Marcus Meissner 2005-08-29 08:22:09 UTC
I have setup my WLAN card to use WEP with a 128 bit key, hash from a 
passhrase. 
 
However, ifup starts WPA supplicant. 
 
# ifup ath0 
    ath0      device: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 
01) 
    ath0      configuration: wlan-id-00:09:5b:ee:1d:8b 
Unsupported key length 128 in hash mode 
    ath0      starting wpa_supplicant 
Starting DHCP Client Daemon on ath0... . . . . . no IP address yet... 
backgrounding.  
#
Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2005-08-29 08:23:03 UTC
Created attachment 47922 [details]
ifcfg-wlan-id-00:09:5b:ee:1d:8b

the ifcfg that is used
Comment 2 Joachim Gleissner 2005-08-29 09:49:16 UTC
Yes, this is intended. wpa_supplicant also handles non-WPA connections. If you  
don't want to use wpa_supplicant, add PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT='no' to your  
interface configuration file. 
 
But the message about unsupported key length is strange, could you check 
whether it still occurs with the sysconfig package from stable? 
Comment 3 Marcus Meissner 2005-08-29 11:34:41 UTC
i did update. the message does not appear anymore. But i will have to test at 
home if it is fixed now. 
iwconfig still reports Encryption key: off ... is that ok? 
Comment 4 Joachim Gleissner 2005-08-29 11:46:23 UTC
I think so. The correct values in iwconfig output should appear as soon as you 
are associated. 
Comment 5 Marcus Meissner 2005-08-29 16:34:11 UTC
was fixed by the sysconfig update. thanks!