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linux-wlan-ng package

  1. Bug #37451
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 37451

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote : Re: prism2 support out of the box

John and Andrew, thanks for testing the patch. Feel free to confirm this bug even if the patch won't work. Otherwise the developers and maintainers won't notice.

The patch just copies the wireless-key info into a wlan-ng-key0 setting, so I am not sure if the "restricted" keyword is supported. I have never seen Gnome put in that word, and I don't know when it should or not.

The hostwep is false by default, and the auth-type is by default "opensystem". That could explain why it fails for John.

My WEP setup worked with these defaults, and I don't know which defaults would work for most people. Since the Gnome GUI doesn't have any choices for this, it's hard to make it work for everyone. This problem is probably not limited to the linux-wlan-ng drivers.

John, can you please confirm that adding either/both authtype and/or hosttype settings to the Gnome-generated file makes it work?