FC4 + ndiswrapper 1.5 + WEP (hex)

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Tue Nov 15 17:35:34 UTC 2005


Everything is working on my wireless connection, except for encryption.
It was discussed in a previous thread "still struggling with
ndiswrapper". 

Can someone using WEP tell me this. When I'm connected right now WITHOUT
WEP if I do an iwconfig I get this:

(is this first part important?)
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless
Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"my-ssid"  Nickname:"me.mydomain.com"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
00:0D:88:8D:CD:01
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-41 dBm  Noise level:-256
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

As soon as I try to enable WEP it looks like this:

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless
Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"me.mydomain.com"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:ABC7-0457-3455-5704-5736-626D-EF   Security
mode:restricted
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-47 dBm  Noise level:-256
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

          Encryption key:ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-AB
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-41 dBm  Noise level:-256
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Notice the ESSID and the Access Point address. The worst part is, if I
try to go back to non-encrypted mode I can't get the ESSID to stick
without a reboot. 

Any ideas on why this is happening? Can anyone respond and show me what
their iwconfig looks like with encryption enabled?

Thanks,
James




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