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@studentc640 root]# rpm -qa redhat-config-network
>redhat-config-network-1.2.15-1
>[root@studentc640 root]# rpm -qa redhat-config-network-tui
>redhat-config-network-tui-1.2.15-1
>[root@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:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Aaron Bennett said:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>rhllist(a)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