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gnome-system-tools package

network-admin does not store special chars (ASCII) correct in WEP key

Bug #46391 reported by 2hansen on 2006-05-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #27171: [network-admin] non-ASCII WLAN SSID breaks network-admin. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

If entering an ASCII WEP key in the network-admin's wireless interface properties certain characters are not stroed correctly in the /etc/network/interfaces. E.g. "&" are not stored at all, and the rest of the key are omitted. "qwerty&ytrewq" is stored as "qwerty".

I haven't tried with other "special" chars, but manually writing the correct WEP key in the interfaces-file (and using "'s before and after) makes it work.

I am using 2.14.0-0ubuntu9 of gnome-system-tools.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-05-25:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	Unconfirmed → Rejected

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2hansen (bo2hansen) wrote on 2006-05-25:

Sorry to "re-open", but I am not sure that this is a duplicate of 27171. 27171 is about the SSID - I am reporting about the WEP key not being saved properly. If the bug affects both these fields it is of course a duplicate - but otherwise not.