what's behind the scenes of redhat-config-network-gui ?

[Aaron Bennett]

Harald --

That's good news.  I tried using redhat-config-network-1.3.1-1 from 
rawhide, and the bug is still there.  It's somewhat different from the 
bugzilla report posted above, however.  
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88566 is regarding 
improperly importing an existing wep key.  What I've found here is that 
when you create a new wireless connection, it inserts "s:" into the new 
key that I've just entered via the GUI.

Am I using the corrected version?  I didn't mess with the initscripts.  
However, I did update redhat-config-network-tui and rhpl.  
(redhat-config-network-tui=1.3.1-1, rhpl=0.108-2).

Thanks,

Aaron

Harald Hoyer wrote:

> the bugfix erratum is in the rhn queue. i didn't want to release 
> another buggy version, so it took me 15 versions to stabilize it ... 
> 1.2.15 will  soon hit your up2date.
> if you use the rawhide version you have to update your initscripts as 
> well..
>
> Aaron Bennett wrote:
>
>> excellent.  I see there's an update in rawhide as well.
>> Just wondering... why isn't that update released as part of Red Hat 9 
>> updates, available on rhn and @ your friendly neighborhood apt 
>> repository?  How does Red Hat decide what makes something worth being 
>> release as part of the updates?
>>
>> William Hooper wrote:
>>
>>> Aaron Bennett said:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> rhllist at assursys.co.uk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> have you got a KEY="YOUR WEP KEY" line in
>>>>> /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-eth1 ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ahhhh.  In /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1, what I have is:
>>>>
>>>> KEY="s:{MY WEP KEY}"
>>>>
>>>> I changed it, taking out the s:, and it now works.
>>>>
>>>> So, what is this "s:" in the KEY entry?  Where did it come from?
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88566
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
>


-- 
Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering