This is probably a stupid suggestion, but did you precede the WEP string with 0x, i.e. 0x1234abcd? On 8/20/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > probably against my better judgment, now that i have broadcom > wireless working reliably on my laptop, i wanted to verify that i > could at least add WEP encryption to the mix. > > no such luck. after confirming that a non-encrypted setup works > just fine, i simply added a WEP key to the linksys router, then ran > system-config-network to set the identical WEP key there. after that, > any attempt to bring up the wlan0 interface on the F8-t1 system > resulted in a bunch of DHCPDISCOVER packets going out, finally > followed by "No DHCPOFFERS received". > > running "iwlist wlan0 scan" does indeed see the AP, which verifies > the channel, and the fact that encryption is on. is there something > i'm missing besides just setting WEP in both places and re-activating > the interface? i would have thought this would be a fairly trivial > thing to do, but nothing's worked so far. > > rday > > -- > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry > Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > http://crashcourse.ca > ======================================================================== > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
