Re: WEP-key format

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

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/networkmanager-list gnome org/msg07935.html
> > I repeat characters of passphrase to have 64 chars and then I use md5
> > hex digest.
> > e.g.:
> > passphrase: 'abcde'
> > repeated:
> > 'abcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcd'
> > 
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> 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