#5485 HIGH Update.: Doesn't accept my Wep key anymore

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#5485: Doesn't accept my Wep key anymore
-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
  Reporter:  gdesmott  |       Owner:  mbletsas
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  reopened
  Priority:  high      |   Milestone:  Update.1
 Component:  wireless  |     Version:          
Resolution:            |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0         |    Blocking:          
 Blockedby:            |  
-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------

Comment(by homunq):

 Let me try to summarize the situation with WEP, as I'm reading it from the
 comments in this bug:

 1. It was working, consistently?, in     1398, 1407, ??? , and 1410.
 2. It was broken on the same machines in 1415, ????, 1422, and 1428.
 3. One report from tomeu on this machine       ^^^^ shows a total meltdown
 in the closed firmware. It responds 0x0004 to everything, ie, something
 has exposed bug 429.
 4. More recent reports, including the latest logs, show something
 different; failure with the firmware still responding.
 5. Manual association using iwconfig seems to be working. NetworkManager
 may or may not be getting in the way, but it certainly isn't helping.

 Conclusions:
 This was working at one point with the current firmware. It is working
 now, manually. This is not simply a firmware problem.

 There is only 1 report of the 0x0004 bug. Although it is apparently on a
 machine which had been working at one point, it really could be some
 intermittent/hardware/other problem.

 Either the current problem was caused by something between 1410 and 1415,
 or something there caused the 0x0004 bug, which has since been fixed, but
 which hid the true onset of the current bug.

 Is this hard to test? Do you need my help making more logs? (ie, trying to
 do this both failing through UI and succeeding manually using iwconfig,
 showing logs for both; or answering "Is the key shown when you run
 'iwconfig' to view the settings?"; or something)

-- 
Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5485#comment:43>
One Laptop Per Child <http://dev.laptop.org>
OLPC bug tracking system