Re: [Madwifi-users] WEP and madwifi

[Brandon L. <los...@ge...>]

Hey, try updating CVS again, there was a bad commit for about 12 hours
the other day which caused this on my system (not a madwifi dev, just
a semi-edumacated user)

--Brandon

On Sat, 01/17/04 at 00:04:27 -0600, Huebel, Tony wrote:
> Thanks Marv I tried doing changing my WIRELESS_ENC_KEY line to be KEY and it
> still gives me the error:
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>     SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument. 
> 
> I am about googled to death on this. I see that error quite a bit but havent
> found any concerete fix. Any ideas?
> Again, without WEP it works just fine (no errors when I run #ifup ath0.
> 
> 
> Tony
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marv Woolard
> To: Huebel, Tony
> Sent: 1/16/04 9:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] WEP and madwifi
> 
> here's my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ifcfg-ath0
> YPE=Wireless
> DEVICE=ath0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=no
> USERCTL=yes
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> ESSID=xxxxxxxx
> CHANNEL=xxxxx
> KEY=xxxxxxxxx
> 
> replace xxx's with your settings (I use hex for the key values)
> Marv
> 
> Huebel, Tony wrote:
> 
> >I have tried with two different APs to specify a 40 bit WEP key and use
> my
> >Orinoco b/g Gold card in redhat but it doesnt work. It works with no
> WEP key
> >and WEP works with the APs on other laptops running windows 2000. I
> have
> >tried setting the WEP key a couple of ways. First of all, to test I am
> just
> >using a wep key of 1111111111. First I tried adding the line:
> >WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=1111111111 to the ifcfg-ath0 and restarting pcmcia and
> >#ifconfig ath0 up. Didnt work. Then I tried #iwconfig ath0 enc
> 1111111111
> >and it gave me this message: Error for wireless request "Set Encode"
> (8B2A).
> >I also tried #iwconfig ath0 key 1111111111 and it gave me the same
> exact
> >error message. Can someone give me a pointer?
> >
> >
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