Re: NM can't see WEP access point

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 17:30 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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)".

Does it allow configuring the WEP key separately from the WPA
passphrase?  Or does it have just one key/passphrase entry, and if so,
what is it labeled?

Dan