On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:10 pm, Keith Winston wrote: > I ran across what I think is a bug in redhat-config-network when > configuring wireless cards with encryption when using a non-default hex > key. BTW, Red Hat 8 handled this situation correctly. > > I have a Lucent Orinoco Silver card that supports 40-bit encryption. > When adding the wireless card configuration, I used > redhat-config-network / wireless device configuration / wireless > settings tab, and defined the settings for my wireless network, > including the encryption key (which is hex). The redhat-config-network > writes the configuration to /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 > and saves the KEY value as either a string or hex value. by default redhat-config-network saves wireless keys as strings unlike 8.0 which used hex as default you need to add 0x before your key to tell it that its a hex key
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