Re: RH9 and WEP

["Joe Polk" <listuser javelinux com>]

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 twmi rr com>
To: shrike-list redhat com
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
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