#5574 NORM Never A: WPA keys must be 10 characters or less in length

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#5574: WPA keys must be 10 characters or less in length
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  Reporter:  midiwall  |       Owner:  mbletsas      
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  wireless  |     Version:  Build 650     
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  wpa passphrase
  Verified:  0         |  
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Comment(by midiwall):

 @marco tomeu: "Since wpa_passphrase doesn't seem to have an issue with
 longer passphrases, this seems to be a UI issue."

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 Actually.. :) Lemme fill in the back story, it may help folks fix this.

 We fired up our OLPCs yesterday at the office; got the networks.cfg file
 set and were happily chugging along on the corporate network (WPA-
 PSK/TKIP).

 We came in this morning, and the OLPCs couldn't connect. Went through the
 morning email, and our NetAdmin had changed the passphrase on what we know
 as our "public" wireless network overnight. mmm, 'k.

 We reconfigured the OLPCs and.. nothing. Reconfigured random other devices
 (Macbooks, Chumby's, Nokia N800s) and everything else was fine.

 dig dig dig; play play play; pull out more hair than I'd care to lose. :)

 I finally got to looking at the old and new passphrase's... the old one
 was a mix of chars, "@"'s, numbers, mixed case text. The new one was all
 numeric ("easy to remember for the guest public wireless subnet"). The old
 one was 10 characters long, the new one was 11. Seems strange, but I
 started to think that either the issue was with an all numeric password,
 or that it had to do with length.

 I grabbed an unused wireless router and setup an isolated test network. I
 first tried wpa-psk, 802.11/g, ssid=ngtest, passphrase=passphrase. The
 OLPC connected.

 next: wpa-psk,802.11/g, ssid=ngtest2, passphrase=13125551212. The OLPC did
 *not* connect. Clicking on the network icon on the OLPC ended up prompting
 me for the passphrase.

 next: wpa-psk,802.11/g, ssid=ngtest3, passphrase=3125551212. connected.

 Each set of tests ran the sequence of a) configure router, b) configure
 OLPC (via terminal session and wsa.sh script), c) reboot router, d) reboot
 OLPC.


 I've asked the network admin to change the password on the public wireless
 network so that I can try the OLPC on it tomorrow. I'll post up results as
 soon as I have 'em!

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5574#comment:3>
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