ndiswrapper and wep encryption

Hi,
i've got a problem setting my wifi card working with wep encryption on
my laptop.
I've configured the card with ndiswrapper and without setting any
encryption in my access point i can connect with this steps :

iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid "myessid"
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhclient wlan0

But when i set a 128 bit (26 hex key) in my access point, it doesn't
work anymore, even if i add this step before all the above :

iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <26hexkey>

Note that in winxp the card works great.

What i am missing, the card is an rt2500 ?

Thank you so much.

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RaSca
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RaSca <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
> iwconfig wlan0 essid "myessid"
> ifconfig wlan0 up
> dhclient wlan0

> But when i set a 128 bit (26 hex key) in my access point, it doesn't
> work anymore, even if i add this step before all the above :

> iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <26hexkey>

Can you show us an actual example? Especially: Are there any error
messages/warnings? What is the output of these:

iwconfig wlan0

iwlist wlan0 key

Does the output match your expectation?
And yes: use a different key after showing yours to the world...

cu
Philipp

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I can't see any error or message warning (in /var/log/messages and also
in /var/log/syslog) and the output of the commands you indicated is
matching what i'm expecting :

iwconfig wlan0 :

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point:
00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-120 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security
mode:restricted
Power Managementff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:136/154 Noise level:0/154
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

iwlist wlan0 key :

wlan0 2 key sizes : 40, 104bits
4 keys available :
[1]: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX (104 bits)
[2]: off
[3]: off
[4]: off
Current Transmit Key: [1]
Security mode:restricted

And obviously XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX is the same for the 2
commands.

Thank you so much from now.

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RaSca
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RaSca <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> iwconfig wlan0 :

> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any

This could be a hint: I guess you have to set the ESSID to the correct
value to be able to associate with your accesspoint.

The rest of your output looks OK to me.

cu
Philipp

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Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-89-3187-3675
Institute for Bioinformatics / MIPS Fax. +49-89-3187-3585
GSF - German National Research Center for Environment and Health
http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel