For those of you who have watched me struggle to get the internal
wireless NIC to work on my Thinkpad T30, I think I've got it.
Yesterday at the bookstore InstallFest the wireless could be
configured and activated with the GUI network configurator (Fedora
Core 6) but with no WEP security.
Tonight at home, I eventually managed to insert the WEP key such that
it was recognized by the access point. Notes:
System -> Administration -> Network
select eth1 -> Edit -> Wireless Settings
enter SSID
enter Channel
enter Key (use 0x for hex) 0x<28 hex digits>
OK
Activate
# observing the results:
$ sudo /sbin/iwcconfig eth1
Encryption key: xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx (28 hex digits in
groups of 4)
$ sudo cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-eth1
KEY= <28 hex digits>
So each of these places has its own view of the WEP key, almost alike
but not exactly.
I don't know a command-line way of doing what the GUI Network
Configuration does, except perhaps for hand editing
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/{ifcfg-eth1,keys-eth1}. And the
content of these files is not exactly intuitive.
carl
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