still struggling with ndiswrapper
Josh Coffman
josh_coffman at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 3 14:38:25 UTC 2005
--- Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 22:24 -0500, James Pifer
> wrote:
> > >
> > > one thing I forget about WEP is putting the "0x"
> > > before the hex string. did you do that for wep
> > > connection?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > When I tried that I got an error that said:
> > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
> > invalid argument "0x[my key was here]".
> >
> > I also tried creating a keys-wlan0 file under:
> > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices
> >
> > The only thing in the file was:
> > KEY=0x[my key here]
> >
> > That didn't seem to work either. Can anyone
> elaborate on the keys-wlan0
> > file? I'll do some googling.
> >
> You CANNOT use the 0x there.
> the file should contain a line KEY='my_key_here'
> with the exact
> displayed value from the AP in the field above.
> IIRC the 128 bit key is something like 28 hex
> characters, but does not
> contain spaces, - signs, etc.
> Copy and paste from the displayed value in the AP
> and it should work
>
> It does for me, with my linksys AP.
>
> > Thanks,
> > James
> >
>
sry. should have said was for the applet.
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