On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:27 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
Doesn't seem to work here. It asks for the encryption key, sets the key correctly and the link is working. IPv6 autonegotiation works and connectivity is working -- I can see traffic on the network with tcpdump. But there's no DHCP request, so no Legacy IP address, and very soon it asks me for another encryption key.
Upon rebuilding it to debug, I found that it refused to build unless I had a newer wireless-tools package installed. That newer wireless-tools seems to have been sufficient to make it work -- you should probably add it to the RPM requirements.
However, it's still not particularly user-friendly. I was asked again for the WEP key and accidentally entered it as a passphrase instead of a hex key. Then I couldn't work out how to _change_ the WEP key. It was unable to connect, of course, but it didn't ask me for the key again.
Eventually I was able to enter a new key by killing 'gnome-keyring-daemon'. Not the most user-friendly experience.
Unfortunately I'm also required to enter my password for gnome-keyring-daemon each time I boot the laptop, before the wireless network will connect. I'm sure it used to connect as soon as the machine booted, but now it's waiting for me -- that's a fairly significant regression, since I'm used to just powering the laptop up and walking away from it, then logging in over the network.