Re: WEP problem on Mandrake

Hi guys,

Yeah, would like to know which wireless cards you are all using.  I plan
to go down to Zhongguancun to buy the whole range, wireless hub, 2 wifi
cards for desktops and 1 wifi card for laptop.

>From a previous post I learned that the Lucent Orinoco Gold PCMCIA is a
good buy.  But what about cards for desktops,... and of course the
wireless hub?

Oh, and please, PLEASE, DON'T even dare to mention Windows.  I couldn't
care less what works or doesn't work in Windows.  I like to see Red
(Hat) and not Blue (screen of death) :-)

I am using Fedora Core 1.

Great to see Frederic and Richard are talking Linux again :-)

Thanks in advance.

Michel

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 12:39, Richard Ford wrote:
> 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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