Bug 116083

Summary:	wpa_supplicant can't deal with dash-separated hex keys
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Reinhard Max <max>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Suggested patch

Description Reinhard Max 2005-09-09 10:23:00 UTC

YaST online-help suggests using dashes to split hex keys for WEP and WPA into
groups of four digits, but when starting a wireless interface that was
configured that way, wpa_supplicant complains about the key having an invalid
format, and exits, leaving the device in an unusable state.

So either wpa-supplicant should be changed to accept dash-separated keys, or the
network initialisation scripts should remove the dashes from hex keys, when
generating the config file for wpa_supplicant.

Comment 1 Joachim Gleissner 2005-09-09 10:38:17 UTC

Fixed package submitted.

Comment 2 Reinhard Max 2005-09-09 10:39:42 UTC

Created attachment 49355 [details]
Suggested patch

It removes everything that is not a hex digit from the key when generating the
wpa_supplicant config file.