F9: NetworkManager WEP for ATT 2701HG-B 2Wire router??

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Sat May 24 16:45:23 UTC 2008


sean darcy wrote:

> Using ATT dsl, with their 2Wire 2701HG-B router. The bottom of the
> router shows a 10-digit number, described in the manual as a WEP "64-bit
> Hex value"
> 
> The drop down box in the NM "Wireless Network Secrets Required" dialog
> only provides for hex in "WEP 40/128", and putting in the 10-digit Hex
> doesn't work.
> 
> Anybody got this to work?

I use a 10-digit hex WEP code with NM, and it works fine.
It didn't use to, but it suddenly started working a few weeks ago.
I assumed it was some Fedora update, but never checked -
I was just grateful to find it working!

I'm using an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card on my ThinkPad T23.







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