On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 18:46 +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Thursday 17 November 2005 6:30 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > I don't use dashes either, but put them in to try. It made no > > difference. I am in the same boat as you, the link works fine > > provided I don't use encryption. > > > > Has ANYONE got it working with WEP? > > > > > Thanks, > > > James > > I think I may hav found the problem. I'm specifying a 128-bit key > because that's what my AP's got set, but the following output shows > this to be a problem. Anyone care to comment? > > [root@lcomp5 ~]# iwlist wlan0 key > wlan0 2 key sizes : 40, 104bits <------------------------- > 4 keys available : > [1]: 546F-2062-6520-6F72-206E-6F74-20 (104 bits) > [2]: off > [3]: off > [4]: off > Current Transmit Key: [1] > Security mode:open > Authentication capabilities : > WPA2 > CIPHER TKIP > CIPHER CCMP > Current key_mgmt:0x0 > Current cipher_pairwise:0x0 > Current cipher_group:0x0 128-bit is sort of a misnomer. The key itself is 104 bits (or 13 ASCII characters), to which a 24-bit (3 byte) "IV" (initialization vector) is automatically added. The whole thing is 128 bits, but you only get to tweak 104 of them. In the same manner, 64-bit WEP uses a 40-bit (5 ASCII character) WEP key. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
