Bug 240322

Summary: can't establish connection with WEP security key
Product: Network Management Reporter: Fahad Al-Saidi <Fahad.alsaidi>
Component: WirelessAssignee: Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: normal CC: greenrd, jamundso, lamarque, sebas
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Fahad Al-Saidi 2010-06-01 06:56:48 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.2) 
OS:                Linux

I am using Kubuntu 10.04 and I can't establish a wireless connection with WEP security method. I have installed ubuntu 10.04 in other machine and I can establish the connection without problem.

this is information form lshw -C network command:

       description: Wireless interface
       product: PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:26:c6:86:fa:0e
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
       resources: irq:31 memory:f4200000-f4201fff

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
try to connect to a wireless network with WEP security method
Comment 1 Sebastian Kügler 2010-08-21 21:51:26 UTC
Do you still suffer from this problem with the network management plasmoid?
Comment 2 Fahad Al-Saidi 2010-08-22 06:47:25 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you still suffer from this problem with the network management plasmoid?

Yes I am still suffering from it.
Comment 3 Robin Green 2011-02-20 13:27:13 UTC
I believe this is because the key is being converted from ascii to hex incorrectly. Try entering the key in hex (you can google for online tools to convert it to hex for you). It should work then.
Comment 4 Fahad Al-Saidi 2011-05-24 08:10:10 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> I believe this is because the key is being converted from ascii to hex
> incorrectly. Try entering the key in hex (you can google for online tools to
> convert it to hex for you). It should work then.

I tried your solution. Unfortunately, when I convert the password to hex, I couldn't enter it in input box. I wonder why nm-applet works better than plasma applet.
Comment 5 Robin Green 2011-05-24 09:06:18 UTC
I believe you need to change the "Key type" when entering a key in hex.
Comment 6 Fahad Al-Saidi 2011-05-24 09:43:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> I believe you need to change the "Key type" when entering a key in hex.

I did that but still I can't enter the hex key.
Comment 7 Robin Green 2011-05-24 11:06:59 UTC
Does the hex key have 0x in front of it? If so, remove the 0x - that's just a code saying "this is hex".
Comment 8 Fahad Al-Saidi 2011-05-24 11:32:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> Does the hex key have 0x in front of it? If so, remove the 0x - that's just a
> code saying "this is hex".

No. It starts with 616
Comment 9 jamundso 2011-06-24 02:50:57 UTC
I believe I see this as well. When I try to manually enter my wireless info, this appears in .xsession-errors:

kcmshell(2601)/Network Management (ui) WirelessPreferences::WirelessPreferences: Could not find deviceUni or AP UNI in args: (QVariant(QString, "{010503cd-19ff-4343-9481-51bfec90e200}") )  
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Comment 10 jamundso 2011-07-07 04:44:00 UTC
Seems to be a slight change between 
1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.i686
and
1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686
now I can manually add the connection, then activate it with "nmcli con up id Home".
This may be a complete red herring however, in that it may be random bits backed by inadequate testing. That's more likely, considering there has been no other feedback here.
Comment 11 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-07-15 01:57:47 UTC
Is this still happening? I did some changes in WEP code some weeks ago that could have solved this problem.