NetworkManager: A User's Review

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:01:00PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I asked about wireless support in this list a couple of days ago and
> people pointed me at NetworkManager.  It was not running on my system,
> perhaps because my system was installed with FC3 and then upgraded to
> FC4 and FC5, so new services were not activated as they would be in a
> fresh install.
> 
> My experience is mixed.
> 
> For the wired and non-encrypted wireless, it seems to be fine.
> HOwever, for the networks that require a WEP key, I can't log in with
> it. When I try with NM, it asks me for a WEP passphrase and it asks if
> I am in an "open network" or "shared network".   I don't know what
> those mean, but I've tried all combinations and it does not log in.
> 
> On the other hand, with the key saved in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, the home network does come up, either
> from the command line:
> 
> /sbin/ifup home
> 
> or inside system-config-network.
> 
> Can NetworkManager be made to read the WEP key as it is already set by
> system-config-network?

This sounds suspiciouly like my experience until now. What I just
discovered is that NM does not like or play with 64 bit WEP keys. You
must use 128 bit WEP keys. You might check your AP for the size of the
keys.

-- 

Charles Curley                  /"\    ASCII Ribbon Campaign
Looking for fine software       \ /    Respect for open standards
and/or writing?                  X     No HTML/RTF in email
http://www.charlescurley.com    / \    No M$ Word docs in email

Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0  809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20060426/5b873e64/attachment-0002.bin