Wireless connectivity NOT resolved

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 9:14 pm, Chris Ruprecht flailed at a keyboard and 
produced this:
> Richard,
> 
> what card are you using? I'm running the internat IPW2100 card (Intel stuff) 
> on my ThinkPad. It started to work fine after I got the firmware downloaded 
> and installed correctly.

I'm using a Linksys WPC54GS (with something called "speedbooster", whatever 
the heck that is).


> To get it going I used the GUI netconfig tool (Under System Tools -> Network 
> Device Control in KDE). I set up the key and all that stuff there. Be 
careful 
> to use the right number of characters for WEP. the 64-bit WEP used 5 bytes 
> (actually only 40 bit encryption). The 160 bit (I think that what it is) 
uses 
> 13 bytes for encryption.

Yeah, I've quadruple-checked that.  Heh.  Thanks, though.

 
> Since the card works without WEP, my initial thought of checking your MAC 
> filtering on the WAP would be a moot point, but I mention it anyway. 

I do filter on MAC addresses, but I've made sure the MAC address for my 
wireless card is on the list of allowed cards.

 
> Also, make sure that you're actually talking to your WAP and not some other 
> thing that one of your neighbors uses.

Yup.

Dang it.

Thanks, though.


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Slainte,
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