Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
One thing I have run into with NM and WEP is that you may have to tell it that is is a restricted network and a shared key. The reason for this is that when the router is set up that way, you have to make an encrypted connection BEFORE you try to get a dhcp lease. If you don't, then the router will not give you a lease.
Interesting info. I wish I knew that while I was still there and could play around. In all of my attempts, I seem to remember trying both Open Network (the default) and Shared Key. I wish NM was more verbose in the *reason* it couldn't get a lease. I get really frustrated not knowing how to tweak things and only hearing: Wrong, try again!
One other thing - if I remember right, the default setup asks for the 128 bit key as ASCII, or hex. (Start with 0x for hex.) It does not want the pass phrase itself. There is a selection where you can give it the pass phrase, and it will generate the hex or ASCII key. I don't remember exactly how to access it - I am not on my laptop, and it has not had to do it for a while.
If I delete the network and start again, it prompts for the passphrase. After I've entered it, every subsequent attempt by NM uses the Hex encrypted key, but it never started with 0x. I would have thought that even though WEP is less secure than it was designed to be, that it would be better known by software like NM and be easier to use! When the inn tells me "no one else is having problems connecting" that Linux Wireless (in particular the tools that support it) isn't where it needs to be yet.
There was a 3rd WEP option available to me while I was playing around, I think it was WEP 40/128 ASCII. I wasn't able to use the passphrase or the encrypted string here either.
Mikkel
Thanks for the response. Does anyone have a resource I can use to catch up on this stuff? Obviously there is a lot I need to learn to be able to use tools like NM effectively.
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