Bug 189015

Summary:	Cannot connect to WEP network due to missing network key input option
Product:	Network Management	Reporter:	dukat <dukat>
Component:	Plasma Widget	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dukat, sebas
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description dukat 2009-04-07 09:55:36 UTC

Version:           0.7 svn 864988 (Ubuntu package) (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

While WEP usage is deprecated, I still encounter many places with WEP encryption only.

Mostly I cannot connect to these networks, as I can only enter the WEP hex key or the WEP passphrase. All network I know only provide the WEP ASCII key (5/13 chars), which I cannot enter into the widget. Thus I cannot connect to these networks.

The Gnome network manager applet provides the ASCII key option. Even under Windows XP it is the default way of entering the network key (In fact, WEP passphrase is not even supported in Windows XP)

Comment 1 dukat 2009-04-07 10:20:10 UTC

Sorry, wrong version number. The right one is 0.0+svn930811 (Ubuntu package)

Comment 2 Sebastian Kügler 2009-04-07 11:48:53 UTC

The option is there in SVN, closing this bug.