It appears that iwconfig is failing to set your WEP key.  If your
password has any charcters that are significant to the shell, you need
to escape them. What does iwconfig  report if you run the commands by
hand? Specifically after running:

iwconfig eth1  essid Mary
iwconfig eth1 key  s:<some passwd>

-DCM-

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:18:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Trying valiantly to set up wireless.  I'm at the point now where I get
> the following:
> 
> *    Configuring wireless network for eth1
> /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig: line 340: iwconfig_get_essid_var:
>                                                        command not found
>  *    eth1 does not support setting keys
>  *    or the parameter "mac_key_" or "key_" is incorrect
>  *    Failed to configure wireless for eth1
> 
> /etc/conf.d/wireless has :
> 
>  essid_eth1="Mary"
> #essid_eth1="any"
> key_Mary="s:<some passwd>"
> preferred_aps=( "Mary" )
> 
> /etc/conf.d/net has:
> iface_eth0="dhcp"
> iface_eth1="dhcp"
> 
> iwconfig reports:
> eth1      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Mary"
>           Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/200
>           Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B
>           Encryption key:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> Any advice appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
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