PCMCIA-cs upgrade problems

[Cef]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:39, kaput wrote:
> I'm running WEP with my key in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. Doing this
> works *perfectly* with the former pcmcia-cs release. However, if I use
> the updated package, the card will not connect, no matter what I do,
> whether attempting to restart the init script, rebooting, or attempting
> to set the key manually with iwconfig. The system will beep in
> recognition that something has changed, but it will not connect.

Have you tried putting the WEP key in /etc/network/interfaces under the 
network interface in question instead of wireless.opts? Most vendors have 
moved away from using wireless.opts, and even upstream has stopped fiddling 
with it.

The option to add the WEP key to the stanza for the interface is:
 wireless-key restricted YOUR_KEY_IN_HEX_GOES_HERE

There are lots of other 'wireless-' commands available. From the man page for 
'interfaces':
       Additional options can be  made  available  by  other
       Debian  packages.  For example, the wireless-tools package makes avail-
       able a number of options prefixed with "wireless-" which can be used to
       configure  the  interface  using  iwconfig(8).   (See  wireless(7)  for
       details.)

Hopefully this will work for you. Good luck.

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 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net