On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 19:45 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > > > > Other things that might interfere are mode, channel (I think 1-12, but 6 > > is usually the default for the AP), and maybe others. > > I usually try to get the connection without encryption, then enable > > encryption later. > > Woo-hoo. It made a connection when I turned WEP off. Now the question is > what am I doing wrong with that? I know I have the key right on the > command line. I have my router setup to use 128bit WEP. When I look at > iwconfig, it does look kind of funny, because it shows the key split > into groups of 4, like abcd-wxyz-1234 etc, and it ends with just two > characters after the last dash. > The key entry in keys-wlan0 should be like KEY='the_entire_key_here' the key must be exactly as displayed in the AP with no abcd-efgh- type structure. It is case sensitive and must be the exact number of characters (yes, the - is a character). I use copy/paste with my web browser interface to the AP to capture it and put it into the configuration file for the adapter. > Thanks so far! > > James >
