#4188 HIGH First D: Wireless locked AP needs to accept hex or passphrase

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#4188: Wireless locked AP needs to accept hex or passphrase
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  Reporter:  kimquirk         |       Owner:  dcbw                  
      Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  high             |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  network manager  |     Version:                        
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0                |  
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Changes (by jg):

 * cc: tomeu, kimquirk (added)
  * keywords:  jg =>


Comment:

 dcbw is correct about automagic retries causing association time to go
 nuts. DHCP sucks on many implementations, multiplied by wireless
 unreliability of wireless broadcast, and doing in 3-4 times sucks 3-4
 times worse. Doing things behind the user's back is just going to cause
 trouble, sometimes with very large delays.  We went there, and tried that
 with the mesh algorithms early on: it sucked.  Let's not repeat that
 disaster.

 So Plan B is the only viable plan, given our experience.  Drop down box I
 think is the only way to go.  As #3990 says, if that is too risky to
 implement for Trial-3 (Tomeu's call), then please put text into the dialog
 to make it clear what the syntax is.

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