On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 16:01, Andrei Thorp <garoth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello there, > > I was recently digging around in the netcfg code to figure out why my > WEP passphrase wasn't working. As I expected, it is because iwconfig > at the moment doesn't support WEP passphrase. > > Anyway, so I'd like to know the reason this has not been implemented > in general. Is it because the netcfg devs want it in iwconfig and the > iwconfig guys don't want to write this? Is it because no one has cared > enough to do it? Should I go talk about this elsewhere? > > Anyway, I personally think that netcfg could use this feature, and > that it'd be dead simple to implement. I figured I'd do it while I'm > on break, but I wanted to confirm that this is indeed a feature that > wasn't being avoided for some reason. If it is a feature that is being > avoided, can I at least write a small patch to tell the user what's > the haps? (At the moment, netcfg tries to use the improper passphrase > by passing a command to iwconfig and then iwconfig throws out a > cryptic "unknown command" error.) > > Cheers! > > -Andrei "Garoth" Thorp > As Aaron said, iwconfig is the culprit here, not netcfg. A patch for that would be most welcome, I would think.
