Well, I did a fresh install for ML 9.1 on my notebook since an upgrade from 9.0 broke stuff. (Reboot still doesn't work, though).
Anyway, how do I change the configuration to use a shared key instead of an open system setting (for WEP, of course)? ML 9.1 configured the pcmcia wireless card as eth0. I believe that I need to modify /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 but I'm not sure of what variable to use. Is this info suppose to be part of WIRELESS_ENC_KEY? I tried to add the shared key parameter to that variable but it turned off WEP.
Here's what my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file contains:
TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR= BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=hostname NEEDHOSTNAME=no ESSID=foobar CHANNEL=6 MODE=Managed KEY=B21B-51E3-3A
Works perfectly for me. I've got a Linksys WPC-11 wireless PC card.
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