Very frustrating wireless problem

Hi there,

I bought myself a laptop from a radio rally in Blackpool yesterday. £150 for
a 400mhz IBM thinkpad... not a bad deal, I thought.
It came installed with Windows XP, so I got rid of that straight away and
chucked Fedora core 3 on there.

I then installed the hostap drivers for my Senao prism based card.. a little
bit of hair loss later it was working and I was surfing google and pinging
things on my LAN (or WLAN).

I was chuffed, this was the first time I'd ever gotten a wireless card
working on Linux (sad, I know) and then a friend suggested I restart the
machine to check all is ok. I did, and it wasn't.

When it came back up and tried to start wlan0 the following error message
get's displayed after about a 30 second timeout..
'Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A): invalid argument
"MY-104bit-WEP-KEY"'

Now, I've triple check the wep key and it is correct, which it should be
anyway since I didn't change it.
The hostap drivers do get loaded and to make matters more confusing, Kismet
works without a problem. So the card IS working, just wont connect to my
network. I just can't think what could have broken when I rebooted...

Any help would be very much appreciated since this is really getting to me
now... so close yet so far!

Cheers,

Treefrog

>
> Any help would be very much appreciated since this is really getting to me
> now... so close yet so far!

Update: I've turned WEP off and it now connects... so I have no idea why
that's happening, like I said, the WEP key is correct, it just seems
iwconfig doesn't like it?

Any help still very much appreciated since I can't run a network without
WEP...

Cheers