Bug 7350 - boot-nonfree for wireless NIC requires WEP key
Summary: boot-nonfree for wireless NIC requires WEP key
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Backlund
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2012-09-04 19:45 CEST by Frank Griffin
Modified: 2015-05-20 14:24 CEST (History)
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Source RPM: drakx-installer-binaries
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Description Frank Griffin 2012-09-04 19:45:27 CEST 
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.
Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 15:26:43 CEST 
Is this still valid in Mageia 5RC?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-12 10:10:22 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: boot-nonfree => drakx-installer-binaries

Comment 2 Frank Griffin 2015-05-20 14:24:43 CEST 
No, this seems to have been fixed ages ago.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
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