-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:25 +0000, Volker Braun wrote: >> Your WEP password is wrong. A glaring design flaw of WEP is that it does >> not give any feedback on whether the password is correct or not. > > Right; NM basically has to try to run DHCP and (after 40s) timeout the > connection attempt, because there's no indication that the key is wrong. > > Be _sure_ you have the right type of passphrase. The other flaw in WEP > is that there are 3 key lengths (40, 104, and 152 bit) and 3 different > passphrase hashes (hex, ascii, and passphrase). There's also the Open > System and Shared Key auth methods. You must get all of those correct, > otherwise the connection will not succeed. > > WEP sucks.
I've found that no system seems to care whether you select open system or shared key. Perhaps I always leave it on open. I've never seen anyplace to set this on the other end, though, so I'm really in the dark about what it does. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGX0m8mb+gadEcsb4RAkuEAJ4ymwVYSuBuw9njYppWM3bj1AKiTgCfYpzX x3TE1fZXTG1VONnvjdTAUb8= =/mko -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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