As everybody should know, WEP is a dead protocol - but right now I need it. On the run on an island where only a WEP-AP is available.
But Gnomes Network-Manager failed after key definition, it tries to establish a connection several times and finally kills itself.
Read the man-pages - they do suggest for a manual definition using 's:passphrase', which only lead to error messages ...
A simple solution can be found on the net, and so I gave it a try:
'sudo iwconfig eth0 essid name_of_AP key restricted your_wep_key_here'(w/o the 's:'-string-stuff) [1]
Now try to fire it up and grab an address via DHCP:
'sudo dhclient3'
It works for me - and the Network-Manager stills says 'no connection available'. Looks like the short word 'restricted' is the key for salvation.
Helper pages:
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/netcfg/+bug/20247
P.S. Just written after connecting via WEP using this hint.
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