On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 04:08, Kevin.Lisciotti@bos.frb.org wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an IBM Thinkpad 600E laptop with an Orinoco Gold card and Netgear > ME102 access point. I have the card properly configured and working > flawlessly without WEP. I am aware of the insecurities with WEP but it > does add another hurdle the attacker must take time to overcome and I > would like to get it working. > > An lsmod shows the orinoco modules loaded, and I've set up the encyption > key, I've tried using both 40/64 and 128 bit wep configurations, but none > of them work. As soon as I enable wep on the access point, the card can't > identify it and I can't connect. Does the orinoco module out of the box > support wep, or do I need a different module and/or driver? Do I have to > recompile the kernel? Sorry I don't have any config files or output > messages, but I'm at work. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! > Did you configure wireless networking in the "neat" GUI network configuration tool? If so, please be aware that the tool is not entirely clear on what type of key you must type into the WEP key textbox. Please read this Bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73701 You must either type the hexadecimal equivalent of your key, or use "s:" before the string version of the key. I hope that Red Hat fixes neat in the future to be more clear on this. Does this help? Warren Togami warren@togami.com
