On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:35 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > 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 > <bump>
