64 bit wep problem

[Russ_T]

Hi all,

After a lot of messing around and finally with the help of linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com) I have my 3com wifi card working.

I even connected to the network when I disabled wireless encryption.

My encryption is 64 bit wep, key 4... I cannot get this to work though. I have tried editing the configuration in neat and setting it with kwifimanager but it's not letting me on.

Can anyone point out a file I can edit and how I do it please? (in Hex or ASCII, so long as its 64 bit and takes into account I'm using key 4).

Many thanks indeed, I NEARLY have it working! :)

Russ

[Russ_T]

Well I think I have the wep working.

I set a new connection up using neat and used iwconfig with something like

iwconfig eth1 key open [4] 1F1F1F1F1F

to set the key properly. My link light on the wifi card stayed solid so I presume that's connection made.

I then went into neat and tried to set the connection as active but it keeps failing when getting the IP, I tried setting the ip to static within neat but that didn't help either.

Any ideas please? Getting closer, just have to sort out DHCP or something in Fedora.

Thanks

[Russ_T]

Here is what iwconfig eth1 gives me... looks good, where do I go now though?

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"OurSSID" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: 00:0D:54:FC:45:56
Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power=32 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:1F77-5386-4E Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=72/94 Signal level=-43 dBm Noise level=-154 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:305 Missed beacon:0



Many thanks