> Hi, > Thank you for your prompt reply, > I tried doing what you suggested, connected my laptop to the router > and set the WEP key on the router interface (192.168.1.1). After doing
How did you do this? through ethernet cable or wifi? > that I tried to set the access point configuration by making the > following changes to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf- > > IFNAME[4]="wlan0" > IPADDR[4]="192.168.1.35" > NETMASK[4]="255.255.255.0" > USE_DHCP[4]="no" > DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="" > DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes" > #DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes" > #DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes" > #DHCP_IPADDR[4]="" > WLAN_ESSID[4]=RT2561_6 > WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed > ##WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto" > #WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto" > WLAN_KEY[4]="0x1111111111" > ##WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="AuthMode=WPAPSK EncrypType=TKIP > WPAPSK=7B1ABEEB5D197741923ED26727569C365E31212096A0EAFAD563B268BAD01CAF > TxRate=0" > #WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant" > WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="ndiswrapper" > > the saved the file and restarted rc.inet1 by - > $sudo /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart > > At this stage, I get an error stating that the password is invalid. > Then I tried to remove 0x from the key. The password gets accepted but > the connection doesn't come up. > > What could be going wrong? > when you setup WEP key why do you have WPAPSK uncommented in your inet1.conf? Are you sure your wireless card is wlan0 on your machine? Seems like you just uncommented the example section and added in the required feilds. the best aproach is to use iwconfig. -- ________________________________________ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/>M d- s++:+ a- C++(++++) ULBS++++$ P+++>$ L+++$ E+ W++ N++ O! M! V! PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP>+++ 5! X! R- !tv b++(+++) DI+++ D-- G-- e++>++++ h r+ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----------------------------------------------------------------
