REPOST: Wireless encryption that works on both Windows and FC3

[Neil Cherry]

Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 12:15 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
>> --- Tarek Aly <tarekmnabil at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Tarek Aly <tarekmnabil at gmail.com>

>>> Now my problem is, Windows only allows, AFAIK,
>>> another encryption mode which
>>> uses ASCII keys and does not have the 64 bit key
>>> scheme as an option.
>>>
>>> So, currently, whenever I switch from Windows to
>>> Linux, I have to connect
>>> through a network cable to my AP to re-configure
>>> encryption. Is there a way
>>> around this problem?

>> I've got wep-128 working under fc4 using ndiswrapper
>> on my laptop. I have a windows partition on the same
>> laptop which also has no problems with the same
>> wep-128 configuration. 

>> What sort of change do you have to make on the AP to
>> get it to work? It also might help to know what
>> hardware is involved. 
>>
>> I don't know about FC3, but NetworkManager is a nice
>> applet if your runnning gnome. 
> Consider WPA encryption, see: http://www.nmrc.org/~inertia/fedora-wpa/

I've got WPA Pre-Shared Key with AES working with NDISWrapper and
wpa_supplicant. Same computer to same WAP (Both Windows & Linux
on the box (computer)). I'm using ASCII keys on both Windows
and Linux.

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