nm-applet missing wep ascii option

[Lars Falk-Petersen]

Binary package hint: network-manager

when connecting to network using wep, one used to have the option of setting ascii key. in ibex only hex and password remains. as a result, nm cant connect.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

$ apt-cache policy network-manager-gnome
network-manager-gnome:
  Installert: 0.7~~svn20080907t033843-0ubuntu2
  Kandidat: 0.7~~svn20080907t033843-0ubuntu2
  Versjonstabell:
 *** 0.7~~svn20080907t033843-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[msonst (focus01)]

I had the same problem here after upgrading to inteprid.

solved it by opening gconf-editor and browsed to /system/networking/wireless/networks/%ssidname% and reset wep_auth_algorithm (I think the value before changing was 12). (Setting wep_auth_algorithm to 1 also works for me). After next reconnect to the desired network I used the "old" wep (ascii) key with "wep 64/128-bit key" enabled.

Kind regards
Michael

[Forest (foresto)]

I have this problem with a fresh install of Intrepid.

Perhaps more troubling, nm-applet did not make it clear that the passphrase it accepted is not treated like an ASCII WEP key. Instead it happily accepted my ASCII key, waited for a longish time, and eventually came back and asked me for my key again. No indication that the key had actually failed. No indication that another type of key exists but is not supported. I ended up spending six hours chasing down forum posts and bug reports related to broken drivers, only to discover in the end that nm-applet simply could not handle an ASCII key.

[David Roberts (david.roberts)]

I can confirm this. I could only connect after converting my ascii key to hex: `perl -e 'print unpack("H*", "WepAsciiKeyHere"),"\n"'`

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

thats fixed in 0.7.1 at least; can you check whether its also working in intrepid packages in https://edge.launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive PPA?. Thanks.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

This was marked FixCommitted a long time ago, so changing to FixReleased.

Please let me know if there are any objections...