REPOST: Wireless encryption that works on both Windows and FC3

[John Summerfied]

Tarek Aly wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tarek Aly <tarekmnabil at gmail.com>
> Date: Jan 3, 2006 6:49 PM
> Subject: Wireless encryption that works on both Windows and FC3
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm a complete newbie and I've been trying to get my wireless network up and
> running on FC3 (after I gave up on FC4 I had to downgrade).
> 
> I reached the point where I could connect to my AP when encryption is
> disabled. When enabling encryption, the only way I can connect is when I use
> a 64 bit key (WEP 64) (I have to mention here that I'm surprised there's no
> way from the GUI to specify the encryption mode).
> 
> Now my problem is, Windows only allows, AFAIK, another encryption mode which
> uses ASCII keys and does not have the 64 bit key scheme as an option.

Windows, I suspect, is being clever. If you enter
	passw
then that's an ascii string (five characters).
However
	pass
is invalid, too short.
	3132333435
is clearly five bytes of hexadecimal, a valid WEP-40 key
and so on.

> 
> So, currently, whenever I switch from Windows to Linux, I have to connect
> through a network cable to my AP to re-configure encryption. Is there a way
> around this problem?
> 
> Every help is appreciated.
> 
> P.S. How can I search the archives of this list?

Google is good, read the advanced search tips.


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