Tarek Aly wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tarek Aly <tarekmnabil@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Jan 3, 2006 6:49 PM Subject: Wireless encryption that works on both Windows and FC3 To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Hi everyone, I'm a complete newbie and I've been trying to get my wireless network up and running on FC3 (after I gave up on FC4 I had to downgrade). I reached the point where I could connect to my AP when encryption is disabled. When enabling encryption, the only way I can connect is when I use a 64 bit key (WEP 64) (I have to mention here that I'm surprised there's no way from the GUI to specify the encryption mode). Now my problem is, Windows only allows, AFAIK, another encryption mode which uses ASCII keys and does not have the 64 bit key scheme as an option.
Windows, I suspect, is being clever. If you enter passw then that's an ascii string (five characters). However pass is invalid, too short. 3132333435 is clearly five bytes of hexadecimal, a valid WEP-40 key and so on.
So, currently, whenever I switch from Windows to Linux, I have to connect through a network cable to my AP to re-configure encryption. Is there a way around this problem? Every help is appreciated. P.S. How can I search the archives of this list?
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