On Tuesday 29 March 2005 9:14 pm, Chris Ruprecht flailed at a keyboard and produced this: > 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. I'm using a Linksys WPC54GS (with something called "speedbooster", whatever the heck that is). > 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. Yeah, I've quadruple-checked that. Heh. Thanks, though. > 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. I do filter on MAC addresses, but I've made sure the MAC address for my wireless card is on the list of allowed cards. > Also, make sure that you're actually talking to your WAP and not some other > thing that one of your neighbors uses. Yup. Dang it. Thanks, though. -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxx) AIM: Buffalo2K / http://www.mossroot.com "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain GPG Public Key located at: http://www.mossroot.com/rscrawford.asc
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