Wifi won't connect with password

[Glen Cunningham]

G'day Jerry,

On Monday 21 July 2008 21:00   Jerry Lapham  wrote:

> I have an Acer Aspire 3002LCi laptop on which I've installed Kubuntu
> 8.04 on a brand new empty drive.  It has a Broadcom 802.11g Network
> Adapter with the BCM4318 chipset.
>
> I have a D-Lind DI-524 wireless router.  If I set Security to "None" I
> can get it to connect.  But if I set Security to "WEP", Authentication
> to "Open System", WEP Encryption to "128bit", and Key Type to "ASCII"
> with a 13 character Key, it won't connect.  It doesn't work with 64bit
> either.
    Very similar system here. D-Link DWL-G700  with ...
	Authentication  "OpenSystem"
	WEP "Enabled"
	WEP Encryption "128Bit"
	Key Type "Hex (26 characters)"
>
> KNetworkManager gives me the option of "WEP Passphrase" or "WEP 40/104
> bit-bit ASCII".  Neither work when I type my 13 character key in the
> "Passphrase" field.  I even tried making both sides use shared key but
> that didn't work either.
>
> Any ideas?  I don't really want to run with a wide-open router.
    I also could not get any sense out of KNetworkManager - it seems to be 
broken   :-(    What I did was put the needed entries 
in /etc/network/interfaces   like so ....

auto lo ath0  #<--- ath0 is my Atheros-chipped Wifi card
iface lo inet loopback  # Gotta have lo
iface ath0 inet dhcp   # dhcp is easier than static here
	wireless-mode managed
	wireless-essid MyESSIDhere # Case-sensitive
	wireless-key 123456789abcdef123456789ab  # Your 26-char Hex key

   A lot of messing about, but it works and is better than 
running  "wide-open".   Note : Your Broadcom thingy will probably be eth1 
(eth0 being your onboard-builtin ethernet interface) anyway ifconfig -a 
should show what is what.

HTH
Glen