Re: Selecting Secure Wi-Fi Network with Network Manager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 19:51 +0100, Leon Stringer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm cross-posting this here because there was no response from the 
> Fedora guys. Apologies if it's a Fedora-specific issue not appropriate 
> to this list.

Sorry about that, I am the Fedora guy :)  Did you file a bug about it
that you could direct me to?

> I've just installed the Fedora 9 Beta. During the install, you're 
> prompted to configure your network interfaces, so I tried to set up my 
> wireless NIC (Cisco Aironet PC4800). It wasn't clear what format the WEP 
> key should be in (i.e. decimal, hex, hex prefixed by 0x..., case 
> sensitivity for hex) so I typed 0x... and hopefully my correct WEP key 
> and the SSID.

During install, a 0x is expected, I think.  That's system-config-network
you're seeing.  

What version of NetworkManager do you have installed?  You'll want to
update to the latest NM bits in rawhide, which are (as of now) svn3521.
That will likely help.

If it doesn't, can you mail me
the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 (or whatever your
wireless interface name is) directly?  It might have your wireless WEP
key in it, but it'll allow me to see what the issue is.

Dan

> Now the installation is complete but I can't connect to my network. 
> Network Manager (0.7.0) shows the network but when I select it I 
> immediately get  "The network connection has been disconnected". The 
> trouble is I can't see how to check the credentials I entered during 
> setup. If I right-click on NM and select "Edit Connections..." I just 
> have 5 empty tabs with the Add, Edit and Delete buttons disabled.
> 
> The salient /var/log/messages entries are below, it looks like my 
> credentials are wrong to me? Surely it would make sense to prompt me if 
> these are incorrect or is this set somewhere else. (If so, it's very 
> unintuitive).
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help or advice,
> 
> Leon...
> 
> /var/log/messages says:
> 
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>  User
> request for activation of eth0.
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0) starting connection 'System
> discovery (eth0)'
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
> scheduled...
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
> started...
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
> scheduled...
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
> complete.
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
> starting...
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0/wireless): access point 'System
> discovery (eth0)' has security, but secrets are
> required.
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
> complete.
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <WARN>
> get_secrets_cb(): Couldn't get connection secrets:
> dbus-settings.c.115 - Secrets were found for setting
> '802-11-wireless-security' but none were valid..
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0) failed for access point (discovery)
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>  Marking
> connection 'System discovery (eth0)' invalid.
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Activation (eth0) failed.
> Mar 30 13:40:34 leon1 NetworkManager: <info>
> Deactivating device eth0.
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