Unable to use wi-fi on Ubuntu Hoary under WEP

[Kenton Brede]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:26:24PM +0800, The_Eye_In_The_Sky (syiwabhairawa at yahoo.com.sg) wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I need your idea in solving my problem.
> 
> I have a laptop recently installed with Hoary with Prism I 802.11b card
> (SharLan WL311F, Linksys WPC-11, and a noname brand PCMCIA).
> 
> There is no problem in getting the connection if I do not enable the WEP
> 64 bit. I cannot use the 128 bit since my old AP is the Silver one, able
> to do 64 bit only.
> 
> If the WEP is enabled, with 5 letters case sensitive ASCII keys, or 10
> digits hexadecimal number preceeded with 0x, the Wi-fi does not work.
> 
> >From iwconfig I can see that the card already got the AP's MAC address,
> but the WEP simply does not work, thus I can only ping myself (if static
> IP is used) or no network available (if DHCP is used).
> 
> Anybody has the same experience?

Just to make sure, I believe there is a module that must load in order
to use WEP.  With my default kernel/setup (2.6.10-5) it was enabled by 
default.  On my machine the module is ieee80211_crypt.
Kent 

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