Re: still struggling with ndiswrapper

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--- Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 22:24 -0500, James Pifer
> wrote:
> > > 
> > > one thing I forget about WEP is putting the "0x"
> > > before the hex string. did you do that for wep
> > > connection?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > When I tried that I got an error that said:
> > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
> >     invalid argument "0x[my key was here]".
> > 
> > I also tried creating a keys-wlan0 file under:
> > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices
> > 
> > The only thing in the file was:
> > KEY=0x[my key here]
> > 
> > That didn't seem to work either. Can anyone
> elaborate on the keys-wlan0
> > file? I'll do some googling. 
> > 
> You CANNOT use the 0x there.
> the file should contain a line KEY='my_key_here'
> with the exact
> displayed value from the AP in the field above.
> IIRC the 128 bit key is something like 28 hex
> characters, but does not
> contain spaces, - signs, etc.  
> Copy and paste from the displayed value in the AP
> and it should work
> 
> It does for me, with my linksys AP.
>   
> > Thanks,
> > James
> > 
> 

sry. should have said was for the applet. 


		
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