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Re: [opensuse] Wireless Problem in 10.0
  • From: Kevin Donnelly <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:30:24 +0100
  • Message-id: <200510211030.24796.kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Friday 21 October 2005 02:17, jim wrote:
> It wouldn't accept the encryption key until you removed the 'open', then
> yast would accept the key number  but as ASCII.
> Well where back to square one, for some reason the command line ,
> command won't connect the card anymore "Network Unreachable"

When I use a Netgear MA521 with SUSE 9.3 (via ndiswrapper), it gets set up
with security mode open, but will only work (ie show a green connection
light) if that is changed to restricted:
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted s:[ASCII_key]

Apologies if this is way off-beam.

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Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly

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