FC4 + ndiswrapper 1.5 + WEP (hex)
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Thu Nov 17 12:43:11 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:35 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> Everything is working on my wireless connection, except for encryption.
> It was discussed in a previous thread "still struggling with
> ndiswrapper".
>
> Can someone using WEP tell me this. When I'm connected right now WITHOUT
> WEP if I do an iwconfig I get this:
>
> (is this first part important?)
> Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless
> Extension,
> but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
> may not be available...
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"my-ssid" Nickname:"me.mydomain.com"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
> 00:0D:88:8D:CD:01
> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
> RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-41 dBm Noise level:-256
> dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> As soon as I try to enable WEP it looks like this:
>
> Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless
> Extension,
> but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
> may not be available...
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"me.mydomain.com"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
> 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
> RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
> Encryption key:ABC7-0457-3455-5704-5736-626D-EF Security
> mode:restricted
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-47 dBm Noise level:-256
> dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> Encryption key:ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-AB
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-41 dBm Noise level:-256
> dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> Notice the ESSID and the Access Point address. The worst part is, if I
> try to go back to non-encrypted mode I can't get the ESSID to stick
> without a reboot.
>
> Any ideas on why this is happening? Can anyone respond and show me what
> their iwconfig looks like with encryption enabled?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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