2009/1/6 Morgan Storey <[email protected]>: > 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.
I'll second that, The TP-Link USB dongle I got for $30-35 from deals direct works fine. > 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 > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
