Okay, I've been told to put the hex key in that file. I've tried the actually hex key as genereated by iwconfig, no luck. I tried the format xx:xx:xx:foo no luck. I was told to precede it with 0x, no luck. <<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Keith Winston <kwinston@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, 05 May 2003 12:15:19 -0400 Subject: Re: RH9 and WEP (still no use) > Joe Polk wrote: > > Okay, putting 0x in front didn't work. Dropping s: and putting in hex didn't > > work. Dropping s: and putting in the ASCII string results in an error. Any > > other ideas? I find it highly ironic that WEP doesn't seem to work well > > under Linux, the one place one would think it should. > > You have to edit the actual config file with a text editor, > redhat-config-network will mangle your hex key. > > Look in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ and edit the ifcfg-ethX > file that applies. > > Then, _don't_ run redhat-config-network again or it will overwrite > your hand edited config file with a mangled key (it always adds an > s: to the front of hex keys). > > Best Regards, > Keith > -- > LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ > That's your shadow on the wall > 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 -------
