On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 02:06 -0700, Patton Echols wrote: > Sry if this reposts. Having mail trouble here so trying again. > > On 05/31/2007 02:16 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:25 +0000, Volker Braun wrote: > > > >> Your WEP password is wrong. A glaring design flaw of WEP is that it does > >> not give any feedback on whether the password is correct or not. > >> > > > > Right; NM basically has to try to run DHCP and (after 40s) timeout the > > connection attempt, because there's no indication that the key is wrong. > > > > > Well, the scenario is this: > > The A.P. is at a coffee shop that is selected by other folks for > meetings. They provide "free" access, but use WEP to keep folks from > parking in their lot, using their connection and not coming in to buy > coffee. When you buy coffee, they have a stack of slips on the counter > with the current password. It is not designed for real security, just to > be enough of a hassle so that people will actually come in the store. > The point of this background is that the passwords are easy: Like > "h0t-m0cha" and they are written down, so easy to key in correctly. > Finally, as I said in the original post, when I boot to WinXP, feed it > the password, it works just fine. > > Be _sure_ you have the right type of passphrase. The other flaw in WEP > > is that there are 3 key lengths (40, 104, and 152 bit) and 3 different > > passphrase hashes (hex, ascii, and passphrase). > Ok, I saw the place to select the hash on the passphrase dialog, but I > thought it was just looking for eg; a hex passphrase. In which case a > passphrase with a "t" or "m" would not work. Could I use the example > above if I switched to hex or ascii? > > I don't remember seeing a choice of key length. Is that in the same > dialog? Or do I change that setting elsewhere. If NM defaults to 104 > bit, I can imagine a failure because the philosophy of what they are > trying to do is minimal security. > > There's also the Open > > System and Shared Key auth methods. You must get all of those correct, > > otherwise the connection will not succeed. > > > And no way to get the AP to tell you the combo it is looking for? How > does windoze do it then? It seems to work there :-(
No, there is no way with WEP. It works on Windows XP/2000 because the only entry type is "Hex Key"; there isn't even a choice for Passphrase or anything else. You can only do actual passphrases with vendor driver utils from D-Link, Linksys, etc. That said, having to present a choice between 3 different kinds of key types really sucks. If the key you're given is 10 or 26 characters long, and only includes the the numbers 1 - 9 and letters a - f, then it's almost certainly a Hex Key, not a passphrase. Dan > > WEP sucks. > > > > > Yeah, I didn't pick it. > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
