Re: [Aironet] linux <--> win WEP

[R. B. S. <bsh...@uc...>]

Hmm... I just tried and the status light turns off as soon as I put the
card in any mode other than open. Does anyone have a script that sets
their card up?

I have one official Cisco 4800B PCMCIA card and one Dell 4800LT PCI
card. I tried both 40-bit and 128-bit. I assume you tell the card what
mode you want by the length of the key???

Thanks,
Ben

Ian Buckley wrote:
> 
> I suceeded in getting WEP working on an Aironet340 yesterday. It turned
> out all
> my problems were typo's and it worked 'out of the box'. I tested both
> 40bit and
> 128bit with 'encrypt' mode. I have not tried 'shared'. Also when the AP
> was configured
> in the optional WEP mode I couldn't get that to work but forcing open or
> encrypt
> was fine. In terms of turning the strings that the Cisco documentation
> describes
> as WEP keys into something for the linux drivers to use take either the
> 10 hex
> character 40bit key or the 26 hex character 128bit key and just colon
> seperate
> pairs of characters e.g a1b2c3d4e5 becomes a1:b2:c3:d4:e5
> 
> I would say however that so far I am having several fatal kernal
> crashesin a day
> so my combo which is RH6.2 with overlayed PCMCIA3.1.19 with overlayed
> latest airo*.c
> is not stable though updated airo*.c files insted of the PCMCIA3.1.19
> varients
> definately helped. This is probabley unrelated to WEP.
> 
> Ian
> 
> Morgan Collins wrote:
> >
> > I remember a post not too long back about getting WEP encryption working
> > with the Aironet 340 series cards, Im wondering if anyone ever got that
> > working?
> >
> > I have two identical boxes here, one running stock slack 7.1 and one windows
> > 98se, and they work awsomely in 'open' mode, but refuse to communicate in
> > encrypt/shared mode. I notice that when it asks you to enter a WEP Key in
> > windows, it asks for a 10 digit numeral, whereas in linux, you need a 40 bit
> > hex number. Is it quincidance that they are both 10 chars long?
> >
> > Anyone have any input/ideas?
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