On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 01:19:29PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > > > > > I'd have to see more of /var/log/messages, as well as iwconfig output. > > > > # iwconfig > > lo no wireless extensions. > > > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > > > wmaster0 no wireless extensions. > > > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"xxxxxxx" > > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated > > Tx-Power=27 dBm > > Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B > > Encryption key:3431-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx > > Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 > > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > Presuming the key is correct, you might try an additional "iwconfig > wlan0 essid xxxxxxx" (where xxxxxxx is changed appropriatedly) to > trigger a new association attempt. Sometimes multiple tries are > necessary, YMMV. ok, i'll give that a shot. > > where the ESSID is correct and the key is the ASCII representation of > > the 10-digit WEP key, which is precisely what can be read from the > > linksys wireless security page. > > That looks longer than 10-digits to me...? Anyway, please re-check > the WEP key just to be sure. You might also ensure that the key is > configured as a hex value at the router, and not as a passphrase. > Just because it looks like hex doesn't mean it is being treated > that way. i thought it looked curious as well, but it's apparently just the "ASCII" rep of the actual 10-digit numeric WEP key: '34' = 4 '31' = 1 which are the first 2 digits of the WEP key. is iwconfig *supposed* to print the WEP key that way? more later. rday p.s. when you run system-config-network, the dialog screen to enter the WEP key states to use a prefix of "0x" to designate hex, but i tried it both ways and the output from iwconfig is the same either way. go figure. ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
