Getting wifi to work
Alexander Skwar
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Mon Jun 19 17:47:37 UTC 2006
peteruta wrote:
> Ok after fighting with Ubuntu to get my WIFI with WEP to work I finally
> did...
>
> I had to use the HEX key not the ASCII....
That's what I did, didn't I?
> I then selected "settings" and entered my hex WEP key. For the key, I
> tried it with and without dashes, ie.
>
> 3D26-72EE-AFFE-7EE1-5FDD-8A1E-77
> 3D2672EEAFFE7EE15FDD8A1E77
>
> (that's not the actual key...).
> This is what I think did the
> trick.
Not for me :(
How do you guys enter the letters of hex keys? Uppercase (ie. "AFFE")
or lowercase (ie. "affe")?
> Ubuntu WiFi support is a bit lacking when you look at SuSE10.1
> offering. Which is not perfect.. but is damb good when compared to
> anthing I have seen for linux so far.
>
> If changing to hex does not fixe it for you... along the way I compiled
> and install the latest release of madwifi...
Which is a bit hard without a network connection...
> I was close to re-installing SuSE on my laptop...now ill hold off a bit
> and hope they improve the wifi offering...
Yep - just a bit... Please just so much, that it becomes usable even
on my system :)
Alexander Skwar
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