Bugzilla – Bug 105211
Passphrases no longer work in WEP key configs
Last modified: 2005-08-17 15:33:38 UTC
Probably not a YaST problem, but rather in the wireless networking scripts. When using YaST (or manually) to configure a WEP key, choosing "Passphrase" is a useless option, since the system treats it as a hex when starting the card. In addition, even when the proper key is entered inraw XXXX-XXXX-XXXX etc. mode in the config, it's still rejected during NIC initialization. For me,the ONLY way I can get online via the ipw2100 is to issue the following command from a root window: iwconfig eth1 key `lwepgen -s "my passphrase here"` [note the backticks] Also, it appears that the wireless scripts are being rewritten to default to using wpa_supplicant. This is a good thing, but so far the integration seems poor. YaST isn't writing a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file, nor is it offering many of the choices that would be needed to do so. Just my 2 cents. Final note: ipw2100-firmware is not on the CD's, nor online. Had to get it from a third party directory on gwdg.de
ipw2100 firmware is online, check ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/
wpa_supplicant configuration is generated by ifup-wireless, not by YaST. And there was a bug in Beta1 which broke non-WPA modes, but usage of wpa_supplicant for non-WPA modes can be disabled by adding PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT='no' to the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-*. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104117 ***