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Subject: Re: FB 5.3 with wireless connection
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:58:37 +0100, Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> Hi all

Hi there,


> 
> With a FB 5.3-P5 how can I configure a wifi card with 128 bits key wep ?
> 
> My wifi card is
> 
> wi0: <Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card> at port 0xe000-0xe03f irq 5 function 0 config 1 on pccard1
> 
> When I use
> 
> root@io# ifconfig wi0 wepkey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx up
> ifconfig: string too long
> root@io# ifconfig wi0 weptxkey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx up
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
> 

You should inform your system that you're using an exadecimal key!
Do so by writing 0x before your wep key.


> Regards.
> 
> --
> Albert SHIH
> Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
> U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
> Heure local/Local time:
> Wed Mar 16 11:55:05 CET 2005

Hope this helps,
best regards

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