Wireless config

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Pablo Rodríguez González wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm trying to use WEP protocol with my Conceptronic PCMCIA and my
> USRobotics Sureconnect ADSL Wireless Gateway.
> 
> The ethernet script is here:
> 
> ONBOOT=no
> USERCTL=no
> PEERDNS=yes
> GATEWAY=172.16.9.2
> TYPE=Wireless
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=
> IPADDR=172.16.9.9
> DEVICE=eth1
> HWADDR=00:50:c2:01:99:9d
> KEY="s:samepassphraseasrouter"
> BOOTPROTO=none
> DOMAIN=
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> ESSID=casita
> CHANNEL=9
> MODE=Auto
> RATE=11M
> 
> but I active WEP in router and the wireless conection goes down. If I
> work without WEP the link is up.
> 
> What could be the solution?

KEY="s:samepassphraseasrouter"

This should go into a separate file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-eth1
(or use 'neat' to create these files - and modify them later)

Satish