Feisty networking issues

[R Kimber]

My Acer laptop can communicate with my wireless router, but only after
a very cumbersome process of entering a keyring passphrase *and* a WEP
passphrase.  The window requesting the WEP passphrase opens behind the
terminal window that has already opened, so it's not entirely obvious
that the delay is because it's waiting for a passphrase. 

Is there a way of having the connection made automatically, without all
the paranoia?  The WEP passphrase was stored in the network manager set
up, but that seems to get ignored. I suspect this is because of some
confusion in the software between 64 and 128 bit, but I may be wrong.

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/