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. > BTW, iwconfig and the ifup scripts know the key value is in hex, so it needs to be exact, not with the preceding "0x" when it is entered. > Thanks, > James >
