Hey, I am trying to setup SUSE 9 Professional on my wireless network at home. I am unsure of the proper setup though. We are using the following setup: ESS Auth: Pre-Shared Key Encryption: WEP128 Key Input Method: Pass Phrase I have two keys which the WAP provided me. How do I get this working on SUSE 9? I've tried putting the pass phrase and the encryption keys into YaST, but none of them are working. Any insight? Kevin
Hi, On Friday 05 March 2004 04:29, Kevin Breit wrote:
I am trying to setup SUSE 9 Professional on my wireless network at home. I am unsure of the proper setup though. We are using the following setup:
ESS Auth: Pre-Shared Key Encryption: WEP128 Key Input Method: Pass Phrase
I have two keys which the WAP provided me. How do I get this working on SUSE 9? I've tried putting the pass phrase and the encryption keys into YaST, but none of them are working. Any insight?
Provided your wireless network card is supported, then it shouldn't be too difficult. In ideal case YaST2 not only recognises your device but actually recognises it as a wireless device (this is not the case at least for some PCI wireless cards in SUSE LINUX 9.0). In this case you wil have the option to specify both ESSID as well as WEP Key in YaST2 (network card configuration -> hardware details -> wireless). I have no clue, however, what "Key Input Method: Pass Phrase" is supposed to mean. You should also know that you can edit the config file manually. If your network device is called wlan0, then the file would be /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0. *If* YaST2 recognises your device but does not recognise it as a wireless device you could manually change WIRELESS='no' into WIRELESS='yes' If you call YaST2 again after that you will be offered to set the wireless parameters. Greetings from Bremen hartmut
Hartmut Meyer wrote:
Hi, ...
I have no clue, however, what "Key Input Method: Pass Phrase" is supposed to mean.
... I don't know if it's relevant, but I recently had a wireless router in hands that generates WEP-keys from a passphrase. So instead of typing in hex-numbers for the key, you just type a sentence and hit a button to have 4 WEP-keys generated. As a sidenote, I recently read there are plans for long-range wireless networking (10s of km instead of 10s of yards). Food for security people ! -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.
Koenraad Lelong wrote:
Hartmut Meyer wrote:
Hi,
...
I have no clue, however, what "Key Input Method: Pass Phrase" is supposed to mean.
... I don't know if it's relevant, but I recently had a wireless router in hands that generates WEP-keys from a passphrase. So instead of typing in hex-numbers for the key, you just type a sentence and hit a button to have 4 WEP-keys generated. As a sidenote, I recently read there are plans for long-range wireless networking (10s of km instead of 10s of yards). Food for security people !
I use ps aux|md5sum to generate my keys.
Provided your wireless network card is supported, then it shouldn't be too difficult.
I wish this were true. I've been able to get my card to work under SuSE 9
provided I can live without WEP (not good). I've seen this on various
distro's. WEP seems to be a tripping point on many Linux distro's. I know, I
know, people always say, "I have an Orinoco, go buy one!" The problem is you
can't go buy one at the local retail chain. It is imperative that support for
mainstream cards become a priority. I'm using a Prism2 based card (old now, I
know) that I've gotten to work on other distro's. My advice to the original
poster is as others, use a hex key instead of a passphrase. There used to be
a bug where the config's "s:<yourphrase>" didn't work correctly. So an actual
key may help.
<<JAV>>
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Hartmut Meyer
Hi,
On Friday 05 March 2004 04:29, Kevin Breit wrote:
I am trying to setup SUSE 9 Professional on my wireless network at home. I am unsure of the proper setup though. We are using the following setup:
ESS Auth: Pre-Shared Key Encryption: WEP128 Key Input Method: Pass Phrase
I have two keys which the WAP provided me. How do I get this working on SUSE 9? I've tried putting the pass phrase and the encryption keys into YaST, but none of them are working. Any insight?
Provided your wireless network card is supported, then it shouldn't be too difficult.
In ideal case YaST2 not only recognises your device but actually recognises it as a wireless device (this is not the case at least for some PCI wireless cards in SUSE LINUX 9.0). In this case you wil have the option to specify both ESSID as well as WEP Key in YaST2 (network card configuration -> hardware details -> wireless).
I have no clue, however, what "Key Input Method: Pass Phrase" is supposed to mean.
You should also know that you can edit the config file manually. If your network device is called wlan0, then the file would be /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0.
*If* YaST2 recognises your device but does not recognise it as a wireless device you could manually change
WIRELESS='no'
into
WIRELESS='yes'
If you call YaST2 again after that you will be offered to set the wireless parameters.
Greetings from Bremen hartmut ------- End of Original Message -------
Joe Polk wrote:
Provided your wireless network card is supported, then it shouldn't be too difficult.
I wish this were true. I've been able to get my card to work under SuSE 9 provided I can live without WEP (not good). I've seen this on various distro's. WEP seems to be a tripping point on many Linux distro's. I know, I know, people always say, "I have an Orinoco, go buy one!" The problem is you can't go buy one at the local retail chain. It is imperative that support for mainstream cards become a priority. I'm using a Prism2 based card (old now, I know) that I've gotten to work on other distro's. My advice to the original poster is as others, use a hex key instead of a passphrase. There used to be a bug where the config's "s:<yourphrase>" didn't work correctly. So an actual key may help.
I have a Prism chipset in my ThinkPad and it took all of perhaps 2 minutes to configure it. I use 128 bit WEP.
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 17:16, James Knott wrote:
I have a Prism chipset in my ThinkPad and it took all of perhaps 2 minutes to configure it. I use 128 bit WEP.
I have an Orinoco and it took...all of 2 minutes to configure it on a non-encryption WAP on SUSE and Red Hat. Kevin
Kevin Breit wrote:
Hey, I am trying to setup SUSE 9 Professional on my wireless network at home. I am unsure of the proper setup though. We are using the following setup:
ESS Auth: Pre-Shared Key Encryption: WEP128 Key Input Method: Pass Phrase
I have two keys which the WAP provided me. How do I get this working on SUSE 9? I've tried putting the pass phrase and the encryption keys into YaST, but none of them are working. Any insight?
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 06:51, James Knott wrote:
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
Is there a way I can generate a hex key from the text phrase? You can see a screenshot of the router at: http://kbreit.dyndns.org:8080/code/wireless.png I'm not sure what information to put in. Thanks Kevin
There are a number of sites online that have WEP key converters.
Try here: http://www.rvs.uni-hannover.de/people/einhorn/jstools/wepkey.html
<<JAV>>
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Kevin Breit
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 06:51, James Knott wrote:
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
Is there a way I can generate a hex key from the text phrase? You can see a screenshot of the router at: http://kbreit.dyndns.org:8080/code/wireless.png
I'm not sure what information to put in.
Thanks
Kevin
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On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 16:01, Joe Polk wrote:
There are a number of sites online that have WEP key converters. Try here: http://www.rvs.uni-hannover.de/people/einhorn/jstools/wepkey.html
As it turns out, my Key 1 (in screenshot) is a hex key (26 chars). That's what I have in my: WIRELESS_KEY='4XX007091922XXX403X27X0XXX' (The letters are replaced with X to keep the key hidden). Kevin
Kevin Breit wrote:
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 06:51, James Knott wrote:
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
Is there a way I can generate a hex key from the text phrase? You can see a screenshot of the router at: http://kbreit.dyndns.org:8080/code/wireless.png
I'm not sure what information to put in.
Did you notice that drop box for key input method? I bet one of the options is for direct hex entry. You can generate as suitable key with "ps aux|md5sum", which will generate a 128 bit key, from which you can pick 104 bits to use. I even wrote a short shell script that generates the 128 bit key and then uses cut to select the leftmost 104 bits.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Knott"
Kevin Breit wrote:
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 06:51, James Knott wrote:
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
For an easy online ASCII to HEX converter try this link: http://www.industrialtrainer.com/Unicode.shtm Karl L Karl Hakmiller Email: karlh@concentric.net Homepage: http://hakmiller.rootsweb.net
James Knott wrote:
Kevin Breit wrote:
Hey, I am trying to setup SUSE 9 Professional on my wireless network at home. I am unsure of the proper setup though. We are using the following setup:
ESS Auth: Pre-Shared Key Encryption: WEP128 Key Input Method: Pass Phrase
I have two keys which the WAP provided me. How do I get this working on SUSE 9? I've tried putting the pass phrase and the encryption keys into YaST, but none of them are working. Any insight?
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
Yes, if you want to use text phrases, you had to set "s:" before your keyword: "s:password". Andreas
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 16:23, Andreas Härtel wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Kevin Breit wrote:
Hey, I am trying to setup SUSE 9 Professional on my wireless network at home. I am unsure of the proper setup though. We are using the following setup:
ESS Auth: Pre-Shared Key Encryption: WEP128 Key Input Method: Pass Phrase
I have two keys which the WAP provided me. How do I get this working on SUSE 9? I've tried putting the pass phrase and the encryption keys into YaST, but none of them are working. Any insight?
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
Yes, if you want to use text phrases, you had to set "s:" before your keyword: "s:password".
would WIRELESS_KEY='4XX007091922XXX403X27X0XXX' be a hex or would it need a s:? Kevin
Kevin Breit wrote:
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 16:23, Andreas Härtel wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Kevin Breit wrote:
Hey, I am trying to setup SUSE 9 Professional on my wireless network at home. I am unsure of the proper setup though. We are using the following setup:
ESS Auth: Pre-Shared Key Encryption: WEP128 Key Input Method: Pass Phrase
I have two keys which the WAP provided me. How do I get this working on SUSE 9? I've tried putting the pass phrase and the encryption keys into YaST, but none of them are working. Any insight?
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
Yes, if you want to use text phrases, you had to set "s:" before your keyword: "s:password".
would WIRELESS_KEY='4XX007091922XXX403X27X0XXX' be a hex or would it need a s:?
A Hex-Code consists only of this values: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,a,b,c,d,e,f (or A,B,C,D,E,F). Because "X" doesn't fit to this values, I think, it is an Ascii-Value. So You had to set "s:...." to your WEP. You had to set your ESSID (the name, of your wireless-net, you had set in your router) and the mode: I had set "repeater" for my router. Then you can use "wavemon" for controlling, if your card has contact to your net and so on... Greetings, Andreas
Kevin
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 17:58, Andreas Härtel wrote:
Kevin Breit wrote:
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 16:23, Andreas Härtel wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Kevin Breit wrote:
Hey, I am trying to setup SUSE 9 Professional on my wireless network at home. I am unsure of the proper setup though. We are using the following setup:
ESS Auth: Pre-Shared Key Encryption: WEP128 Key Input Method: Pass Phrase
I have two keys which the WAP provided me. How do I get this working on SUSE 9? I've tried putting the pass phrase and the encryption keys into YaST, but none of them are working. Any insight?
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
Yes, if you want to use text phrases, you had to set "s:" before your keyword: "s:password".
would WIRELESS_KEY='4XX007091922XXX403X27X0XXX' be a hex or would it need a s:?
A Hex-Code consists only of this values: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,a,b,c,d,e,f (or A,B,C,D,E,F). Because "X" doesn't fit to this values, I think, it is an Ascii-Value. So You had to set "s:...." to your WEP.
I replaced the letters with X's for security. Kevin
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Wireless on SUSE 9
Try using hex keys. Apparently there is some variation when text phrases are used.
Yes, if you want to use text phrases, you had to set "s:" before your keyword: "s:password".
Try this link for easy ASCII to HEX conversion: http://www.mikezilla.com/exp0012.html Karl Hakmiller Email: karlh@concentric.net Homepage: http://hakmiller.rootsweb.net
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