According to the man page for iwconfig, the s: is supposed to prefix the ASCII key when you're not manually entering hex. This is odd that the s: would be there. Perhaps they were trying to insert it beforehand. I'll try removing it to see what happens. Thanks! <<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Keith Winston <kwinston@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, 01 May 2003 12:37:26 -0400 Subject: Re: RH9 and WEP > Joe Polk wrote: > > Anyone have any luck with WEP and RH8 or RH9? I've tried 64bit and 128bit > > keys with no luck. I can put in ASCII strings in the GUI setup, and iwconfig > > shows them converted fine but they never find the WAP. Take it all out and go > > naked, all works fine. > > This is a known bug. It has been bugzilled and fixed (in one of the > RH engineers FTP sites). Sorry, I don't have links at hand. > > You can fix it manually by editing: > > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 > > Or whatever your wireless device is. Redhat-config-network always > converts a hex key into a string by adding an s: to the KEY= value. > Just remove the s: part of the key. Be warned, however, that if you > go back into redhat-config-network and change anything, it will > mangle your hex key again. > > Best Regards, > Keith > -- > LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ > Droplets of yes and no in an ocean of maybe > Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list ------- End of Original Message -------
