Bug 150926

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Hello.
I think there is a missing feature in kdenetworkmanager, which is an ability to provide a WEP key index for a wireless connection through a GUI.
Some ingenious admins use the key index as an added "protection" to their wireless environments. The key index is not, as one may think, just a way to store couple of WEP keys, but it has to match with the access point's setting. However rare the situations are, they do happen, and every graphical operating system from Microsoft (including Windows Mobile on PocketPCs) provides a way to set it in the wireless configuration dialogs.
If confusing, this could come as an Advanced suboption.
P.S. I am aware that it is not impossible to configure this setting, for example one can follow distribution specific instructions e.g. given in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=293444, but doing it in other way than through GUI disintergrates the feel of the operating systemand adds a great deal of a hassle especially when one switches between networks frequently (as the last post on the given forum thread from an annoyed user Oblivionvlad proves).
After all, for me this seems to be the only missing wireless config that non geek may be required to use, and also it should not be hard at all to implement.