Re: question about WEP encryption with wrong password

[Helmut Schaa <hschaa suse de>]

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.

Regards,
Helmut