My suggestion first would be to upgrade your card, WEP is horribly broken and mac security adds only a small challenge to anyone getting in. They are pretty cheap now I picked up a g card 18months ago for $60, it works fine in Linux.
But back to your issue. What version Orinoco card is it, bronze, silver, gold etc? As iirc Silver and below can only do wep64bit. What version of wep are you using ( I assume 128)? Another test would be turn off wep and see if it connects with just the mac address security on, then try with just wep on, but I would say the card may simply not support the version of Wep you are using. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Heracles <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have an interesting WEP problem. I have my wireless network set up to > accept only the cards in my machines (by MAC address) and to use a WEP > key for encryption. This works perfectly for my main machine but I am > unable to get my laptop onto the system. I'm sure the MAC address is > correct and I am also sure that I use the same WEP pass phrase but I > cannot get a connection to the laptop. The laptop has an Orinoco card > which:- > A. Connects perfectly without security > B. Is the only reason I used WEP rather than WPA. It only handles WEP. > C. The only reason for the wireless setup. > > I am new to wireless encryption and am a bit puzzled. Any clues would be > appreciated. > > I use Ubuntu 8.10 on my Laptop and 8.04 on my main machine. The router > is a Linksys wrt54g2. > > TIA > Heracles > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJYoNyybPcBAs9CE8RAiz3AJ4vrm2rzz5k+Q12/nCny5cJtMfjpACfR9+B > d6ylndkWnlgeuKj1BKF3Vws= > =pcvm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Regards Morgan Storey,A+, MCSE:Security. IT Security Specialist. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
