Bug 113758 - WEP setup wlan card tries to use WPA
Summary: WEP setup wlan card tries to use WPA
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Mobile Devices (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: All All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Joachim Gleissner
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Reported: 2005-08-29 08:22 UTC by Marcus Meissner
Modified: 2007-06-05 10:05 UTC (History)
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2005-08-29 08:23 UTC, Marcus Meissner 		Details
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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!