http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=416
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-27-07 22:32 ------- As of Mandrake 9.1 with all official updates applied (as of today), this bug still exists. Something goes wrong when drakconnect reads the configuration details from ifcfg-eth0. In particular, it ignores the value of the ESSID field (the network name), it always says any. Other fields do not get written to the file properly. I have manually configured ifcfg-eth0 and made it read only, this works but it is not very user friendly. Here is something important for developers: to use an encryption key other than 1, iwconfig requires a command line like this: iwconfig eth0 .... key [2] <13 byte hex number = 26 chars> key [2] Note that the keyword "key" must appear twice, and that the key must be preceeded by [2]. (the second 'key [2]' is stored in the field wireless_iwconfig) In ifcfg-eth0, these two values must be wrapped in single quotes or they cause shell errors when the scripts are executed by the network startup process. Therefore, the control center wizard must wrap them in quotes also, I think. I would love to help debug this, I know Perl from a Windows and command line unix background, but with the Mandrake control center, I can not get any gui debugging sessions working; perl -d: ptkdb crashes out fairly early in the process (even when I debug drakconf --wizard) , and komodo doesn't even begin. Some tips on this would be great. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEW creation_date: description: I have a wireless network card for my laptop. I didn't not install it from the installation but waited until the OS came up before configuring it. Launched MCC, selected network wizard. This successfully detected my card and my modem. I selected to configure my wireless card. The wireless configuration screen was displayed. I entered my details for ESSID and WEP Key (As an aside why doesn't it display the two format types that the key can be entered in - a new person will wonder why they can't configure the card correctly if they enter the key as a string instead of a hex sequence). The wizard does it's configuration and the network can be seen, the finish wizard page is shown. When you press the finish button it overwrites /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifet0-cfg file with one which does not contain the wireless information. Hence, when it goes back to main network menu the network fails as it issues a restart along the way. The frig is to copy the ifeth0-cfg file before pressing the finish button, and then copy it back after closing MCC, and then re-issue the ifup eth0
