On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 13:14 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:36 +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:30 +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am writing a simple Python client (or module) which would create a new > > > wireless connection via NM D-Bus Interface. I have no problems with > > > uprotected networks and also with WPA protected networks. But I cannot > > > make it working with WEP. According to /var/log/messages there is a > > > problem with WEP key: > > > ifcfg-rh: > > > parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-anaconda_wifi_test4 ... > > > ifcfg-rh: error: Invalid WEP key length. > > > > > > According to > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07935.html > > > I repeat characters of passphrase to have 64 chars and then I use md5 > > > hex digest. > > > e.g.: > > > passphrase: 'abcde' > > > repeated: > > > 'abcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcd' > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > networkmanager-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > Sorry, I accidentaly hit CTLR+ENTER instead of ENTER. So here is the > > rest: > > hexdigest: '04e49e18f78a0111df976d1a5a348651' > > > > Is it possible to use this way or is there another way to be used for > > getting a wep-key0 for the Connection.Settings dictionary? > > If you have a passphrase, you can send the passphrase as it is, and NM > will do the hashing. But to ensure that the hashing is done correctly, > set the "wep-key-type" item appropriately. See the following for more > details of that item: > > http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/settings-spec-08.html > > Dan > > Thanks a lot for the link. Reading the page solved my problem and probably many more that would otherwise occur in future. What is weird is that I haven't come accross this page while "attacking google".
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