Re: RH9 and WEP

[Keith Winston <kwinston twmi rr com>]

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
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