Bug 134369 - NetworkManager - WEP not functional
Summary: NetworkManager - WEP not functional
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 3
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Critical (vote)
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Assignee: Robert Love
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Reported: 2005-11-18 10:15 UTC by Stefan Scheler
Modified: 2005-12-12 15:29 UTC (History)
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NetworkManager log (5.95 KB, text/x-log)
2005-11-18 10:16 UTC, Stefan Scheler 		Details
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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.