broadcom wireless works, WEP doesn't

[Gerry Tool]

This is probably a stupid suggestion, but did you precede the
WEP string with 0x, i.e. 0x1234abcd?

On 8/20/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>   probably against my better judgment, now that i have broadcom
> wireless working reliably on my laptop, i wanted to verify that i
> could at least add WEP encryption to the mix.
>
>   no such luck.  after confirming that a non-encrypted setup works
> just fine, i simply added a WEP key to the linksys router, then ran
> system-config-network to set the identical WEP key there.  after that,
> any attempt to bring up the wlan0 interface on the F8-t1 system
> resulted in a bunch of DHCPDISCOVER packets going out, finally
> followed by "No DHCPOFFERS received".
>
>   running "iwlist wlan0 scan" does indeed see the AP, which verifies
> the channel, and the fact that encryption is on.  is there something
> i'm missing besides just setting WEP in both places and re-activating
> the interface?  i would have thought this would be a fairly trivial
> thing to do, but nothing's worked so far.
>
> rday
>
> --
> ========================================================================
> Robert P. J. Day
> Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
> Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>
> http://crashcourse.ca
> ========================================================================
>
> --
> fedora-test-list mailing list
> fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe:
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
>