Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.com
Mon Jun 23 04:37:44 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 22:35 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 18:07 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > One other thing - if I remember right, the default setup asks for 
> > the 128 bit key as ASCII, or hex. (Start with 0x for hex.) It does 
> > not want the pass phrase itself. There is a selection where you can 
> > give it the pass phrase, and it will generate the hex or ASCII key. 
> > I don't remember exactly how to access it - I am not on my laptop, 
> > and it has not had to do it for a while.
> 
> That's not correct for NM, though it is for system-config-network and
> friends.  In NM, there's a pulldown selector and you can choose (I
> think--can't check right now) passphrase, ascii key or hex key.  The hex
> key does not start with 0x.

I thought when using hex key and the 0x, it was for when using like
system-config-network or the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/key-file or
whatever?  And using just passphrase is when using NM itself.

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Mike Chambers
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