NetworkManager: A User's Review

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 20:00, Charles Curley wrote:
>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.

Mine are all 128 bit, it simply ignores them.


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