Wishlist: add support of pass-phrases in iwconfig
Bug #788324 reported by
blue balls
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireless-tools (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: wireless-tools
The iwconfig manual states that pass-phrases are not supported for the "key" parameter.
I think it would be very useful to have this feature because in real life the WLAN routers that provide Internet access to Windows and Linux machines are configured with pass-phrases.
The Windows machines can connect to those access points but the Linux machines cannot.
Revision history for this message
| Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in wireless-tools (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| blue balls (blueballs5432) wrote | #2 |
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While I agree to some degree that the lack of passphrase support is inconvenient, you can always use NetworkManager to configure your access points to be able to connect to them; or using wpasupplicant if you only want to use the command line.
As for actually reporting this bug to the writers of wireless-tools; I can't seem to really find a place to report it, except by sending an email to the writer (see the wireless-tools homepage): http://
I'll mark this Confirmed/Wishlist for now, since it's pretty clear that there isn't passphrase support, but it really is something that should be done upstream, as written above.