Hi, Thanks Helmut and Dan for your quick response.
best rgds, Charly Liu -----Original message----- From:Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:Helmut Schaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:[email protected],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Mon, 05 May 2008 12:14:27 -0400 Subject:Re: question about WEP encryption with wrong password On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 17:34 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, 5. Mai 2008 11:25:42 schrieb charlyliu: > > I have a noobie question about WEP encryption. I was trying at my AP the > > WEP encryption with a worng password and I notice that NM completes the > > stage 2 and begin the dhcp manager. Then the dhcp doesn't receive any IP > > because I entered a wrong password. Is it normal that wpa_supplicant > > completes his states hence NM completes stage 2? I think that it shouldn't > > have to pass stage 2 because if we have an static IP then we will see that > > the connection is established, but we're not (can't ping anywhere). > > AFAIK the problem is neither NetworkManager nor wpa_supplicant. Using WEP you > won't get any notification that the authentication failed from the AP. > Therefore NM cannot do anything useful instead of starting DHCP. Correct; the only failure indication of static WEP is the inability to talk to anything. You can still auth & assoc to the AP (because management frames are not encrypted), you just can't exchange any traffic with the WLAN. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
