On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:46:31PM -0500, Keith Winston wrote: > Norman Gaywood wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:50:34PM -0500, Levinshtein, Eyal wrote: > > > >>Is there any incompatibility in the WEP key? > >> > >>I enter a WEP key on the AP, and enter the same WEP key on my client in > >>Windows it works. If I enter the same WEP key in RH Linux 8.0 it will > >>not > >>work.? > >> > >>Any idea why? > >> > >>I use Orinoco Gold and Lucent AP-500 > > > >I had a similar problem until, after reading the man page for iwconfig, > >I figured out that I must enter the key as: > > > >s:WEPKEY > > > >That is, put the s: on the front of the key. > > The s: on the front tells iwconfig you are using a string for the key > instead of hex digits. If your key is in hex, you don't want to use the > s: prefix. Yes that is correct. The reason I say try the s: is that I have an Orinoco Silver card and a RG-1000. The default WEP key for the RG-1000 is given to you looking like a hex key, something like 34dfba. After much tearing my hair out trying to make linux work with that as the hex key, I tried s:34dfba and everything fired up. Cheers. -- Norman Gaywood -- School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@turing.une.edu.au http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Phone: +61 2 6773 2412 Fax: +61 2 6773 3312 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
