[driverloader] driveloader and WEP - unable to connect with ENCRYPTION (e.g. WEP) on

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

in the dump you sent to support at linuxant.com, I do not see any obvious 
problems. The installer Windows driver does support WPA, WPA2, AES, 
TKIP, WEP128 and WEP64, so 64 and 128 bits WEP keys should be supported.

With WEP keys there are things to be aware of. First of all, they come 
in 2 formats, hex and ASCII ones so make sure that both the access point 
and the configuration tool use the same format. You could also try with 
different security mode settings, i.e. open, restricted, etc...

You should also try to connect to the access point using another device 
or operating system just to make sure that the access point is correctly 
configured. How do you input the WEP key under Linux?

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com



gab jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I currently downloaded the trial for driverloader download.
> 
> May I say what a fresh of breath air this tool is having been trying to configure wireless for my RHEL 4 linux laptop with ipw2200 card for 5 days to no avail.
> 
> The driveloader install was very easy.
> 
> Now to my onlyhiccup/issue.
> 
> 1) I can connect to my linksys WRT54GS wireless router with ENCRYPTION (e.g. WEP) off and bang my wireless works
> 
> 2) But when I enable the WEP encryption I can not connect at all and I always get the below in tail -f /var/log/messages
> 
> Jun  3 20:57:30 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
> Jun  3 20:57:35 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> Jun  3 20:57:39 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> Jun  3 20:57:48 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> Jun  3 20:57:56 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
> Jun  3 20:58:14 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> Jun  3 20:58:28 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
> Jun  3 20:58:48 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
> Jun  3 20:58:49 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
> 
> Please and advice will be greatly appreciated?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gab
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