Wireless connectivity NOT resolved

[Chris Ruprecht]

Richard,

what card are you using? I'm running the internat IPW2100 card (Intel stuff) 
on my ThinkPad. It started to work fine after I got the firmware downloaded 
and installed correctly.

To get it going I used the GUI netconfig tool (Under System Tools -> Network 
Device Control in KDE). I set up the key and all that stuff there. Be careful 
to use the right number of characters for WEP. the 64-bit WEP used 5 bytes 
(actually only 40 bit encryption). The 160 bit (I think that what it is) uses 
13 bytes for encryption.

Since the card works without WEP, my initial thought of checking your MAC 
filtering on the WAP would be a moot point, but I mention it anyway. 

Also, make sure that you're actually talking to your WAP and not some other 
thing that one of your neighbors uses.

Best regards,
Chris


On Wednesday 30 March 2005 00:01, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I thought it was resolved, but it turned out the WAP had not restored WEP
> encryption like I thought it had.  So, the wireless card works fine with
> WEP turned off, but not when it's turned on.  I've tried:
>
> # iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXX restricted
>
> which generates this error:
>
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A):
> 	SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
>
> My Googling indicates that this might mean that the card does not support
> encryption, which I find unlikely since it certainly does under Windows.
>
> I also tried:
>
> # iwconfig wlan0 key 0xXXXXXXXXXX restricted
>
> That generated no errors, but did not give me connectivity.
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