can't connect to WEP shared key networks

[dsd]

Sugar's model.network is only communicating the need for shared key authentication in the secrets response, which is too late for NM to do anything about it. This means that all connections to shared key WEP networks fail.

This isn't trivial to fix, as the only point at which the user can scream "I want shared key authentication" is when sugar pops up the key request dialog, which is already after the WirelessSecurity details have been sent.

[dsd]

I wonder if NM can be more flexible and accept only learning about the auth alg late in the game. ​http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-December/msg00011.html

[dsd]

Dan Williams suggested a solution:
​http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-December/msg00018.html

This works. patch coming up.

[erikos]

Thanks for working that out (with looking for advice upstream)!

The patch looks good. Please add your copyright as well in into the header of the files and in meshbox.py you have a line too long error. For example make it:

settings = kwargs['connection'].get_settings()
net.create_keydialog(settings, kwargs['response'])

Would be nice to add a little test case, so people can test when it gets available in the form ( ​http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release#Stabilizing ).

I guess backporting to 0.84 and 0.86 shouldn't be an issue at all.

[dsd]

|TestCase|
Attempt to connect to a WEP network "protected" with shared key authentication, ensure that connectivity succeeds.

[dnarvaez]

Milestone 0.88 deleted