8.04, cant't connect to wireless net with WEP key
Mark Greenwood
fatgerman at ntlworld.com
Fri Apr 3 22:16:54 UTC 2009
On Friday 03 April 2009 23:04:59 Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Hello
>
> this is odd. I can connect to every open wireless net, I even can
> connect to wireless net using WPA 2 keys.
>
> But I tried to connect to a network with WEP enabled and finally the
> connection gets refused.
>
> I can perfectly connect using MS XP, so I am wondering that may be
> knetworkmanager does not transmit the key undamaged.
>
> Or can somebody point me out how to connect to a wireless net with
> WEP using other tools than knetworkmanager.
>
> no nm-applet does not work neither.
>
> thanks
>
> Uwe Brauer
>
>
I'm not using 8.04, but I spent literally hours and hours trying to get my wireless to work on 9.04 until I noticed a setting in networkmanager - "Key Type" was set to 'passphrase' by default. I changed it to 'Hex Key' and, since I'd been entering my Hex Key, it suddenly started working. D'Oh! :)
Mark
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