Re: NM can't see WEP access point

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 10:11 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>
<snip>
> Jouni confirmed that there is a bug in the supplicant.  The
> commit ce8963fc9f197771cd51ba2834fbdf711189641a ('Remove WEP40/WEP104
> cipher suite support for WPA/WPA2') appears to have broken this
> functionality (where the AP advertises WEP support in WPA/RSN IEs),
> but
> it will still work for WEP-only APs.  Not sure what his solution will
> be, since this behavior (TSN) is technically allowed by the standards
> for WPA1 (but not necessarily for WPA2/RSN, I believe).
>
> We should likely also modify NM to not reject the AP if the RSN IE
> fails to parse, but to simply ignore WPA2/RSN on that AP and only
> allow
> using TKIP, if present.  If the RSN IE fails to parse and the AP does
> not support TKIP, then NM should correctly reject the AP, since
> RSN+WEP
> is not really a valid mode.

The only WEP-equivalent mode on the Airport Express (gen 1) I have is
labeled as "WEP (Transitional Security Network)".

I'll have to see how to set up a hotspot with WEP some other way for my
testing I think.

Cheers