WEP Key Format In Mandrake 10.0 Official

[Riptide614]

Hi,

 

I've had this problem in Mandrake 9.2 and having it in Mandrake 10.0 Official.

 

I'm trying to get my wireless connection working with 128-bit WEP turned on but cannot do so. I suspect that it's the format in which I'm entering my WEP key. In Fedora Core 2 I had to enter my key with a "0x" preceding the key. Ex: 0x5397#c4c46###6f65eb###0###" (Some numbers changed for security purposes while posting).

 

However, doing so in Mandrake does not work. I can not get my wireless working with WEP turned on but it works fine with WEP turned off.

 

Can anyone help me with the proper format to enter my WEP key into the Mandrake GUI wireless configuration screen?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Riptide614]

Nevermind, I figured it out myself.

 

I had to enter it as hexidecial. Ie.: 53:97:#c:4c:46:##:#6:f6:5e:b#:##:0#:##

 

and that worked perfectly.

 

Hope this helps someone else out and if you're running wireless w/o WEP and MAC address filtering, I highly recommend you turn them both on.

 

Cheers,

 

- Rip

[Guest monkeyman444]

Where exactly did you configure WEP? I can't get mine working. Is there a GUI menu or do I need to manually edit a config file?

 

Running 9.2 on Inspiron 9100 w/broadcom NIC.

[streeter]

WEP can be configured in several ways:

 

kwifimanager (type it at the command line, or find it in the 'start' menu)

if not installed, type "urpmi kwifimanager" as root.

 

From the mandrake control centre. (network and internet->manage connections)

 

or manually - as root, type

iwconfig wifi0 key [1] a1b2c3d4e5 OPEN

 

Check with

 iwlist wifi0 encryption

 

chris