Bug 134369

Summary:	NetworkManager - WEP not functional
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Stefan Scheler <sscheler>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Robert Love <rml>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj
Version:	Alpha 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	NetworkManager log

Description Stefan Scheler 2005-11-18 10:15:20 UTC

I cannot connect with NetworkManager to a WEP encrypted wireless lan. I tried a couple of different wlan cards, but no luck. WEP support seems generally broken. The NetworkManager keeps asking for the WEP key (tried also to enter key in hex).

I attached a NetworkManager log using ipw2100.

Comment 1 Stefan Scheler 2005-11-18 10:16:19 UTC

Created attachment 57707 [details]
NetworkManager log

Comment 2 Stefan Scheler 2005-11-21 15:04:58 UTC

Hmm, I did some research regarding this matter. The Problem seems to be the fact that the network's dhcp server doesn't send dns servers in its dhcp replies.

As a result of this, NetworkManager fails because of two things:

1) Wrong dhclient configuration 
require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;

2) nm-dhcp-manager.c line 510
       if (!get_ip4_uint32s (manager, dev, "domain_name_servers", &ip4_nameservers, &num_ip4_nameservers) || !num_ip4_nameservers)
                goto out;

1) can be easily configured, 2) should get fixed.

Comment 3 Robert Love 2005-12-12 15:29:55 UTC

Agreed.

Committed fix to CVS.  Will submit new package to autobuild.