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

[Aaron Bennett]

That did it.  I'm sorry to have wasted your time... the dialog clearly 
instructed me to do that too, and I missed it.  Thanks for responding.  
It's this sort of thing that makes Red Hat the unique company that it 
is.  You rock.

Again, thank you.

- Aaron

Harald Hoyer wrote:

>if you want a hexadecimal key, then prefix it with "0x" in the dialog
>
>Am Do, 2003-08-07 um 15.41 schrieb Aaron Bennett:
>  
>
>>Harald --
>>
>>Thanks again.  I tried again using redhat-config-network-1.2.15-1, 
>>redhat-config-network-tui-1.2.15-1, and rhpl-0.93.4-1, and it is still 
>>broken.
>>
>>Here's a reproducer:
>>
>>1.  kickstart a box fresh
>>2.  install latest versions of r-c-n, r-c-n-tui, and rhpl
>>3.  click Hat menu / System Settings / Network
>>4.  click "new"
>>5.  select wireless connection
>>6.  select the first wireless card from the "select wireless device" 
>>menu.  (in my case, it's "Lucent Orinoco and Prism II-based PCMCIA 
>>wireless (eth1)")
>>7.  enter the WEP key in the Key section of next screen
>>8.  click next, then apply
>>9.  /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1:
>>
>># Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
>># for the documentation of these parameters.
>>USERCTL=no
>>PEERDNS=yes
>>GATEWAY=
>>ONBOOT=yes
>>TYPE=Wireless
>>DHCP_HOSTNAME=
>>IPADDR=
>>DEVICE=eth1
>>HWADDR=00:02:2d:6c:a8:5d
>>BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>>DOMAIN=
>>NETMASK=
>>ESSID=
>>CHANNEL=1
>>MODE=Managed
>>KEY=s:{my web key}
>>RATE=11Mb/s
>>
>>[root at studentc640 root]# rpm -qa redhat-config-network
>>redhat-config-network-1.2.15-1
>>[root at studentc640 root]# rpm -qa redhat-config-network-tui
>>redhat-config-network-tui-1.2.15-1
>>[root at studentc640 root]# rpm -qa rhpl
>>rhpl-0.93.4-1
>>
>>
>>
>>Should I open a new bugzilla report, or attach this to existing bug @ 
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88566 ?
>>
>>
>>
>>Harald Hoyer wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>better try the version from:
>>>ftp://people.redhat.com/harald/redhat-config-network/1.2.15-RH9
>>>
>>>Am Do, 2003-08-07 um 14.35 schrieb 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:
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Aaron Bennett said:
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>rhllist at assursys.co.uk wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>         
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>>>>>>>              
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>>>>>>            
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Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering