Wireless WPC 11 V3 Card and WEP Encryption

[sundial]

I have a WPC 11 V3 card that is working on my Laptop under Kubuntu 7.04
It only seems to work if I turn off the WEP on my wireless linksys (802.11b) router.
Is there a limitation on WEP with this card? Linksys says no, but when i turn on the WEP on the router and i enter the passphrase, it will NOT connect.
Any thoughts?
Sundial

[jankushka]

Re: Wireless WPC 11 V3 Card and WEP Encryption

not the faintest idea...
though, my experts here say that WEP is obsolete and people should really use WPA.
so, give WPA-PSK a go and perhaps you can forget about the WEP issues... :P
my setup with knetworkmanager and kwallet works like a charm.

[sundial]

Re: Wireless WPC 11 V3 Card and WEP Encryption

Thanks for the input. I still would like to understand why I cannot get the system to work with WEP.

[audionut]

Re: Wireless WPC 11 V3 Card and WEP Encryption

Hi Jankushka!

I would be REALLY curious to know how you got WPA-PSK working. Using Kubuntu 7.04 on my laptop, I can get Knetworkmanager to "see" the network, but it will NOT connect when I have WPA on. Then when I re-boot, knetworkmanager does not even see ANY wireless networks, and I have to re-configure. Then, again, it does not connect.

Do you have to re-configure each re-boot?

Knetworkmanager works GREAT with OpenSuse 10.2; I was really surprised to see all the problems I am having in Kubuntu...

[jankushka]

Re: Wireless WPC 11 V3 Card and WEP Encryption

sundial, could you pls post the result of the following:

cat /etc/network/interfaces

ifconfig -a

thanks

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i didn't do much to get wpa working.
i enabled it on the router, logged in and there it was knetworkmanager asking the passphrase.
and since i use kwallet the passphrase is now in there and i only have to enter the wallet password.
oh, i also have the mac address mapping thing enabled.

i have a dell precision m65 with ipw3945 with kubuntu 7.04 and (as of yesterday) the latest kernel.
the adsl router is a netopia 3000 (on which i had recently downloaded the latest firmware, 'cause i hadn't done it for a while and i was a few releases behind).

my interfaces file is very simple:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

and i haven't got any passphrases saved anywhere 'cause everything goes into the kwallet.