On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 09:45 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:42 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > > I *think* this is because ipw's drivers don't set "open" when you set a > > key by default, and networkmanager is expecting that all drivers do it > > that way, but I haven't investigated this very thoroughly. > > When you do the ioctl() to set the key, you pass in some flags. I > currently use Shared Key (IW_ENCODE_RESTRICTED) in that field, so NM > attempts to set the mode explicitly. It may be a driver issue though. Yes, the NM-forced restricted mode was the issue I was talking about. But I'm perfectly OK with your explanation about why open system authentication makes things harder. Also, I see that you're adding some changes in CVS to enable it anyway. As for the ipw2100 driver -- versions 0.57+ now actually default to OPEN. But NM overrides this so no harm done. It does make life harder if you're using ifup scripts with shared key authentication though. I had to patch ifup-wireless to force restricted mode. Now if I could only get wpa_supplicant to work with my D-link/ipw2100 combo... -- Ziga