Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mark" == Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> Not to get too offtopic here, but my view on this is that Well, Martin seems to have solved his problem so I guess we can just beat this one to death while we're enjoying it ;-) Mark> it's better to treat a wep encrypted link as

Re: Solved. Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! So I got the 40bit key working (using hex key instead of ascii passwords). The strange behavior with certain keys disapeared (don't know why I had it in the first hand). Thanxs again for your help! :-) Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! So now I have _some_ success with the 40bit key. :) After Shyamal told about problems with the s:password I tried to set key via its hex value. I tried something similar to iwconfig eth0 essid "the networks essid" iwconfig eth0 mode managed iwconfig eth0 key 5432154321 Afterwards

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Robert A. Knop Jr.
> If I configure the AP to use the key "qwert" and do on my linux box > "iwconfig eth0 key s:qwert" it works fine (i.e. there are no error > messages) beside that the connection does not work, only the "Rx invalid > crypt" counter keeps increasing. Just a check -- have you also set the ESSID to b

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:20:10AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:33, Martin Fluch wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not secure but better than > > nothing) on my wireless card (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem > > to use it under

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:33, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hi! > > I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not secure but better than > nothing) on my wireless card (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem > to use it under Windows, but it doesn't work with Linux. > Not to get too offtopic her

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Martin" == Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Hi! I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not Martin> secure but better than nothing) on my wireless card Martin> (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem to use it Martin> under Windows, but it doesn't w

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Keith Winston wrote: > I have that card working. You need to add your encryption key to the > /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file, something like this: > > [...] I had the settings there (I checked with iwconfig, how the card was configured) and also did configure the card manual

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Keith Winston
Martin Fluch wrote: Hi! I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not secure but better than nothing) on my wireless card (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem to use it under Windows, but it doesn't work with Linux. I have Debian Unstable on my laptop, a recent 2.4.20-ac2 kernel, iwcon

Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not secure but better than nothing) on my wireless card (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem to use it under Windows, but it doesn't work with Linux. I have Debian Unstable on my laptop, a recent 2.4.20-ac2 kernel, iwconfig version 25 and