From: "Ron Hunter-Duvar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] mdkcustom missing
On June 22, 2005 13:24, Teilhard Knight wrote:
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] mdkcustom missing
> Teilhard Knight wrote:
...
> It sounds like we don't have everything configured to match your
> system.
> At this point, I suspect that it is ether the essid, or that you are
> using encription, and you don't have the correct key. (It could also be
> a problem where firmware needs to be uploaded to the device, but that
> should have generated an error message in the logs.)
>
> If it works ok in Windows, then copy down the ESSID and KEY that works
> in Windows, so you can configure Linux the same way.
The adapter works all right in Windows. No problem at all.
As for the ESSID and key, I have multiple checked them and I am sure they
are the correct ones. I used them to check the adapter itself is problem
free in Windows. I am as surprised as you, specially because the signal
and
the network link were excellent in Windows. And in my laptop I have the
wireless integrated adapter working great in Mandrake. I'll wait for your
feedback. In the meanwhile I'll also make a Google search just in case I
find something.
Teilhard
Try it with encryption turned off.
I was trying a while back to get a wireless PC card working on a laptop. I
could get it to work with encryption off, but I could never get it to work
with encryption on. In fact, the program that handled the encryption key
didn't even have the right size key field (on my wireless router, with 128
bit encryption, the key length is 26 hex digits; yes, I know, that's only
104
bits, not 128; something weird in the way WEP was designed). I forget the
details now, though, as this was many moons ago.
Of course, you might not be comfortable working with encryption off,
either
for your own data sent over the air, or for some else being able to war
drive
onto your network. But realize that WEP encryption is broken anyway (I
think
it's something to do with the not totally random way that 104 bits are
mapped
into 128 bits), and will only stop the most casual of interlopers. A
determined cracker will be kept out for a maximum of several hours, and a
minimum of a few minutes, depending on the amount of network traffic
(there's
an upper bound on the number of intercepted packets required to crack the
key). WPA is better, if it's supported, but I believe even it is not
totally
secure.
If you want any assurance of security over a wireless connection, you have
to
set it up as a vpn connection.
I followed your advise and turned encryption off. I was able to connect all
right then. Problem is my laptop ceases receiving and the connection is cut
for it. Maybe it would not be difficult to configure the laptop to work with
encryption off, but as a first approach I turned encryption on again. I
agree with what you say about a hacker breaking in and the rest, but I feel
very unprotected without encryption. The default configuration of my router
is 64 bit encryption, which even makes easier for someone to break in my
computer than with 128 bit. But I have the hope to find a cure for the
impossibility to get an IP address with encryption on. Maybe that we know
now that I can connect with encryption off Mikkel, you, or even me can come
with something to make the bloody adapter to work properly. If we do not
succeed, I'll return the adapter to my dealer and ask him to change it for
something else.
Teilhard.
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