Re: WEP problem on Mandrake

Have you tried editing the if-config-??? file manually?

Here is a copy of mine....


STARTMODE=hotplug
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
WIRELESS=yes
MODE=Managed
ESSID=*****************
CHANNEL=**
KEY=*****************

I employ good wifi practices:

SSID Broadcast off.
WEP on.
Non-stanrd ssid name and channel.
And MAC address filtering in the router to only allow authorised cards
to connect.
non standard internal IP address range

The only bad thing I do is use DHCP - which advertises my "obscure" IP
range (if they could break the mac filtering and wep and discover the
hidden essid).

RF.



On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 12:34, Paiato Matteo wrote:
> And you are thinking to just to say :'I'm using Mandrake 10 on my 
> wireless LAN" without give more info on this!!!!!! :-)
> Come on, tell us the full story... wich card are u using? it was 
> automatically configured or you did some hack to make it working? I 
> think a lot of Penguins are interested in this, even if WEP is 
> disabled.
> Ciao
> 
> Matteo
> 
> On Apr 15, 2004, at 12:13 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am using Mandrake 10 on my wireless LAN. Everything is working fine 
> > when
> > WEP encryption is disabled. Though enabling encryption just does not 
> > work
> > for me. I guess I might be entering the key in a wrong format since 
> > through
> > the Mandrake Control Center the Encryption box does not specify any 
> > format.
> > I did some research online (a bit) and could not come up with any fix 
> > yet.
> > Also tried wlcardconfig but it comes up with a error message even 
> > before
> > starting to configure anything.
> >
> > Anyone with similar problem who managed to get it resolved?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Fred
> >
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