Re: Wireless network problems - Dell Inspiron 1501

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On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 18:42 +0100, Robert McBroom (TNWestTex) wrote:
> > 
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:31 +0100, Robert McBroom (TNWestTex) wrote:
> > 
> > > iwconfig from the command line in a terminal window will let you see the wireless setup and change some parameters.  Getting the encryption keys just right between an F8 laptop and many routers seems to be a problem.  Anything beyond 64bit WEP has me stumped so far.
> > > 
> > > 
> > Several questions occur to me:
> > 1. What makes you think you are using 64bit wep?
> > 2. It makes no sees for the essid to show up in the ifcfg-x file. How
> > would that support connecting in a different environments? It does not
> > appear in my ifcfg-eth1.
> > 2. You seem to have network running with MN. Shut down network.
> > --
> > 
> I think it is 64bit WEP because that is what the router web page tells me has been selected from the various options and that is the setup combination with which the laptop setup would connect successfully.  I could not get the laptop to accept 128 or 256bit keys in ascii or hex.  
> 
I know I am being a pedant but what you re calling a 60bit encription
key is only 40 bits and the 128 bit key is only 104 bits. The wireless
system adds a rotating set of 24 bit strings to the base constant key to
get 64 and 128 bits.
> The network is as installed.  I've been busily capturing the nuggets in the threads on network manager vs network but have not attempted all the permutations and combinations.
> 

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