Comment 2 for bug 269534

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.