Wifi won't connect with password
Glen Cunningham
glen20 at exemail.com.au
Mon Jul 21 12:36:04 UTC 2008
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
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