Everything is working on my wireless connection, except for encryption.
It was discussed in a previous thread "still struggling with
ndiswrapper".
Can someone using WEP tell me this. When I'm connected right now WITHOUT
WEP if I do an iwconfig I get this:
(is this first part important?)
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless
Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"my-ssid" Nickname:"me.mydomain.com"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
00:0D:88:8D:CD:01
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-41 dBm Noise level:-256
dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
As soon as I try to enable WEP it looks like this:
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless
Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"me.mydomain.com"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:ABC7-0457-3455-5704-5736-626D-EF Security
mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-47 dBm Noise level:-256
dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Encryption key:ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-AB
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-41 dBm Noise level:-256
dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Notice the ESSID and the Access Point address. The worst part is, if I
try to go back to non-encrypted mode I can't get the ESSID to stick
without a reboot.
Any ideas on why this is happening? Can anyone respond and show me what
their iwconfig looks like with encryption enabled?
Thanks,
James
