| Summary: | boot-nonfree for wireless NIC requires WEP key | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Frank Griffin <ftg> |
| Component: | Installer | Assignee: | Thomas Backlund <tmb> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | thierry.vignaud |
| Version: | Cauldron | Keywords: | NEEDINFO |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Source RPM: | drakx-installer-binaries | CVE: | |
| Status comment: | |||
Is this still valid in Mageia 5RC? Keywords:
(none) =>
NEEDINFO
Thierry Vignaud
2015-05-12 10:10:22 CEST
CC:
(none) =>
thierry.vignaud No, this seems to have been fixed ages ago. Status:
NEW =>
RESOLVED |
I tried a boot-nonfree install on a laptop with a broadcom wireless chip. This chip was detected, and was presented along with the wired NIC for selection in stage 1. When I selected it, it requested the ESSID and the WEP key. The access point is unsecured, so I filled in the correct ESSID and left WEP key blank. This resulted in an Error popup saying "unable to disable WEP key on device "eth0": invalid argument The "eth0" is correct (for some reason the broadcom gets detected before the wired NIC), but the error is bogus.