WEP encryption does not work

[monotux at gmail.com]

When you have enabled WEP encryption on both your AP and your client,
always make sure that your client have associated with the AP - this is
not very hard to do, simply run iwconfig, for example:

iwconfig eth1

The output should contain something like this:
Access Point: 00:0F:B5:XX:XX:XX

...but the MAC address will be your AP's instead of mine.
If your computer hasn't associated with your AP, the MAC address will be
blanc (ie, 00:00:00:00:00:00).

If they haven't associated, you need to check your WEP-key, or wait a
minute or two.

Oscar

On 12:53 Fri 03 Feb     , Camuzat Sebastien wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I don't understand why the WEP encryption does not
> work under ubuntu, on my 2 wireless adapters. The
> first is driven by ndiswrapper (netgeat ma5211, on a
> laptop); The other one is a noname, recognized as a
> prism54, PCI.
> 
> Both work perfectly in a non secured network.
> When I input the wepkey, the router does not give any
> IP address, in brief, does not recognise the
> encryption. My modem is a linksys WAG54G.
> 
> Ive tried also inserting dashes between each 4 digits,
> unsuccessfully (key nr 2, hex). Ive tried gtkwifi that
> does not work neither (DHCP failed).
> 
> By the way, why does the wlan manager does not propose
> to input the key number ?
> 
> argh.!!! I don't understand !
> Seb
> 
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