Re: [LUG] Wireless & WEP

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Alex Charrett wrote:
>
> I've tried setting KEY="s:key" in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts but this
seems to
> make no difference to the problem when starting pcmcia_cs

Does it work with "iwconfig" i.e. iwconfig eth0 enc xxxx-xxxx-xx

x = { hexadecimal digits }

The syntax of the key in wireless.opts seems to change between vendor
cards, I think Buffalo are Prism II.

Also always worth checking what firmware revision you have PRI and STA,
usually output when the card is brought up, but I think cardctl will
tell you as well. Suggest dragging it up to the latest that Buffalo
support just to eliminate any known firmware issues.

> This sytem is:
> Red Hat 7.3
> wireless-tools-23-2
> kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-18

My Redhat 7.0 system I eventually just hardwired the "iwconfig" for
encryption into /etc/init.d/pcmcia. Debian worked fine out of the box in
this respect ;)

I found Redhat 8 worked a lot smoother with wireless cards. I took my 7
box to PCMCIA-CS 3.2 (I'm sure I had my reasons), but I think you should
be fine. The wireless tools stuff is quite good at complaining if
versions of other stuff are too old.

Is it using the Orinoco driver at this point in time?

Oh if I'm missing any letters, my keyboard just died, and the spare is
feeling it's age.
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