On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 19:51 +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 11:00, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > > This may really be a problem for the UI. If there is no way to figure > > > out if the WLAN is using 802.1X and 802.1X and WEP appear to be the same > > > for the software, we would have to extend the WEP connection dialog that > > > pops up when connecting to an unknown WEP network to also provide the > > > possibility to select "WPA Enterprise" and "WPA2 Enterprise". > > > This reduces the user-friendliness and makes it even less possible to > > > configure a wireless network without any knowledge. It's very > > > unfortunate that the standards do not provide enough information to be > > > user-friendly. > > > > WEP is entirely broken in this regard. You cannot figure out > > Open/Shared Key auth either from the beacon, the user has to know this. > > You also cannot know the format of the Passphrase->Key hashing with WEP, > > because there are 40 and 104-bit variants of each of the following: hex, > > ascii, passphrase. > > OK, so I remembered this correctly. > > > In short, we need a way to do phase2 and make stuff like dynamic WEP > > more apparent, but we need to do it in a way that doesn't break existing > > stuff and that's at least mildly usable. > > ACK. I hope I can start to look at it in the next week.
Great! Let me know if you need any direction or help on stuff. Dan > regards > Stefan Schmidt _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
