On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:17, Kevin Saenz wrote:
> I think the problem is accepting strings, and I couldn't be stuffed
> getting it to work.
My setup is:
/etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth1 ndiswrapper
options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1
So setting the key manually would be:
# iwconfig eth1 key "s:abcdefg"
# iwconfig eth1 essid "aarnet"
I had more hassle with Fedora wanting names in the "eth[0-9]+" format
than anything else. The ndiswrapper driver uses setting the ESSID as a
commit point (as do a lot of wireless drivers), so you might need to
re-establish the ESSID for the changed WEP key to take effect.
I'm not sure if Mandrake uses the Red Hat sytle configuration. I have:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:11:22:33:44:55
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ESSID=aarnet
MODE=Managed
IPV6INIT=no
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-eth1
KEY=s:abcdefg
Although in reality I use a long random binary key so that the already
too small effective WEP keyspace isn't further reduced.
Setting the ESSID to something obvious is a good idea (eg: your street
address). Then there's no question about intent if someone attaches to
the network.
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