Re: Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-23 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 23:37 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 22:35 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 18:07 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: One other thing - if I remember right, the default setup asks for the 128 bit key

Re: Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Matthew Saltzman wrote: That's partly right. I read Mikkel's post as claiming that the '0x' prefix was required for NM, which is not correct. s-c-n and friends have only one way to enter a key and no way to specify its type, so to distinguish hex from ascii, you need the starting '0x'

Re: Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Matthew Saltzman wrote: s-c-n and friends have only one way to enter a key and no way to specify its type, so to distinguish hex from ascii, you need the starting '0x' character. Otherwise ascii 'd3adb33f' and hex 'd3adb33f' would be indistinguishable. NM WEP has the pulldown menu to

Re: Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-23 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 17:31 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Matthew Saltzman wrote: s-c-n and friends have only one way to enter a key and no way to specify its type, so to distinguish hex from ascii, you need the starting '0x' character. Otherwise ascii 'd3adb33f' and hex 'd3adb33f' would

Re: Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 17:31 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: With me, NM occasionally gets into a loop where it keeps asking me for my encryption key. I feel like screaming at it, I've already told you 5 times what the f-ing key is. The only solution to this I have found is

Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-22 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
My laptop has an Intel 3945 wireless builtin. Under F9, I've had very few problems with it connecting. At home, I have a Linksys wrt54g and connect using WPA security. Work fine (95% of the time). Same at my mother's house, where I set up a similar router. I'm using NetworkMangler. This

Re: Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: My laptop has an Intel 3945 wireless builtin. Under F9, I've had very few problems with it connecting. At home, I have a Linksys wrt54g and connect using WPA security. Work fine (95% of the time). Same at my mother's house, where I set up a similar router. I'm

Re: Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-22 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing I have run into with NM and WEP is that you may have to tell it that is is a restricted network and a shared key. The reason for this is that when the router is set up that way, you have to make an encrypted connection BEFORE you try to get a dhcp lease.

Re: Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-22 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 18:07 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: One other thing - if I remember right, the default setup asks for the 128 bit key as ASCII, or hex. (Start with 0x for hex.) It does not want the pass phrase itself. There is a selection where you can

Re: Weird iwl3945 wireless problem

2008-06-22 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 22:35 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 18:07 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: One other thing - if I remember right, the default setup asks for the 128 bit key as ASCII, or hex. (Start with 0x for hex.) It does not want