[driverloader] WEP not working on broadcom 4301

[Linuxant support]

Hi,

I need to add some precisions to my previous answer.

'iwconfig' also gives errors if you try to set the key to a value with the
wrong length.

Also, you might need to use a more recent Windows XP driver. Please see this
post from Mr. Mark Feit.

http://www.linuxant.com/pipermail/driverloader/2003q4/000222.html

Regards,

Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linuxant support" <support at linuxant.com>
To: "Hrafnkell Eiríksson" <he at klaki.net>; <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [driverloader] WEP not working on broadcom 4301


Hi,

the "s:password" way of entering the key is not supported with all drivers.
You should try to enter the key in HEX digits.

e.g.:
iwconfig eth0 key C0E5-F563-73E8-E331-6D5D-5386-20

You might also have to add the keyword "open" or "restricted" after the key
to force open or shared-key mode. Some cards do not associate well with an
AP in automatic mode.

Regards,

Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hrafnkell Eiríksson" <he at klaki.net>
To: <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 5:46 PM
Subject: [driverloader] WEP not working on broadcom 4301


Hi

I've got driverloader 1.36 installed.
My network card is a Linksys WMP11 card with a broadcom bcm4301 rev 2
chip (according to cat /proc/pci).

Driverloader works and I get wireless network connection but I have
to disable WEP on my network.

If I try to set a WEP key I get the following:
[root at host root]# iwconfig eth0 key s:somekey
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device eth0 ; Operation not supported.

Any ideas why this is?

Thanks
  Hrafnkell