On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 14:10, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
Folks,
When trying to hook up my laptop to a wireless network, what more is needed to activate the security key than entering the 26-character key in the appropriate "box" using YaST? When I do so (and after I've reconfigured my firewall to recognize wlan0 as my doorway to the great beyond) my computer sees the connection. But when I run iwconfig, the encryption setting appears as "off." All the other information iwconfig gives clearly shows that the laptop is seeing the wireless hub. And I found no blindingly obvious (to me anyway) setting within YaST to change the off to on.
Best regards,
Pete
My experience is that the setting of the wep key seems a bit inconsistent. On my desktop machine with an Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] SMC2602W I have to put 1234-5678 as the key On my Mini-ITX machine with a netgear Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset I have to put 1234-5678 But on the laptop with an Lucent wavelan/ieee I have to put 1234-5678-0000-0000 inorder to get it to work. I think I had to manually put these strings into /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 as YaST wouldn't accept some of them but I cna't remember which ones it rejected. Anyway, it does work now. Peter.
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