> Andreas, do you use "cancel"? Yes, I believe I did press "cancel" in the Network Settings window in each of my previous attempts, because I just tried again, pressing OK this time, and now the file /etc/networking/interfaces did in fact get written to, for the first time since the system was installed (I verified that before I pressed OK it still had a timestamp of the day the system was installed). After I pressed the OK key, there was a lengthy delay before the Network Settings window disappeared, on the order of 60 seconds.
However, despite /etc/networking/interfaces now containing the correct WEP key, the wireless interface remained non-functional. As before, setting the WEP key manually using iwconfig fixed it. Unlike before, the interface now worked after rebooting the machine. In other words, I am seeing the same behavior reported by Stephen G. The issue of Cancel vs OK does not change the fact that there is a bug: even though choosing OK rather than Cancel means the interface works after a reboot, it still does not work until rebooting, and it should. Also, the fact that you can make it work without a reboot by manually setting the key using iwconfig even though "iwconfig ath0" already displays the correct key is just bizarre. To me that suggests that there may be a kernel or driver bug causing the interface state displayed by iwconfig to become inconsistent with that actually used by the hardware. -- [network-admin] WEP doesn't work when setting key using network-admin https://launchpad.net/bugs/67152 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs