To whom it may concern,

I have recently installed xubuntu 7.10 for the desktop onto my ibm thinkpad r40 model. What I am having problems with is the network passphrase for the wireless network that I want to connect to. I do not know what it is? But I do have internet on my desktop computer which is running fedora core 4. How can I find out the network passphrase for the laptop that I want to get connected to the internet? Preferably I would like to know how to do it through the command line if possible? But any answer would be great. I have learned that sometimes the passphrase could mean something else like the ip address or the gateway address. What does passphrase mean on xubuntu because I might already know it, but just in case I do not know it can you tell me how to find it on fedora core 4. Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

This should be of some assistance:

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After I try to connect to my wireless router a dialog box comes up and asks for the network key. Can someone tell me what the network key really is because I tried the router passwd and that did not work. I also tried the gateway address and that did not work, the gateway address, the essid, and the domain name. Can someone just tell me what the network key is identified as? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated. I am running xubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon and I have enabled the wep block on my wireless router.

could it be the router password?

Hi

there are three possiblies
1.
it sounds like you have wep turned on. the network key its asking for is a
10 digit hex code. this code was generated by your router when you put in
whatever " pass phrase " you used. this is not the router password.
you should be able to log into you router and go to the wireless section,
then encription section. look for the "wep" settings, you should see
a list of 4 network pass phases. the only one Ive been able to get to
work is the first one under linux. in windows I can pick which key of the 4
I want to use. so select the first key and write it down.
it will look something like "01fd32c950" yours will be different. (no, thats
not my code).

go back to your laptop and enter the pass phase. see if this lets you on.

2. its really asking for your linux root password to enable access to the wireless
section. enter your root password.

3. go to your router and find the master reset button, follow the instructions
on how to reset it back to the factory defaults. log into your router as in
section 1 and setup the wireless section and wep settings again.

Vanessa

The pass phrase does not work. Which root password should I use the one on the laptop or the one from the desktop?

hi

What exactly is the laptop asking you? please post it for us.

it still sounds like its asking for the network key that I mentioned in my last post.

let us know

Vanessa

The laptop is asking me for the network key when I choose the wep encryption connection that I have which is 64 bits 10 hex digits. I tried the 4 dns keys and they did not work, is there another way to get the connection through the terminal instead of the gui and if there is can you explain it to me step by step? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This thread is confusing--in part because different terms are being used for the same thing. What are the "dns keys"? (This does not sound like anything for Wireless.)

Have you tried going to the router configuration page and specifically entering a WEP key? On my system, there are dialogs to enter 4 different keys--and to select which one is in use. Using the 64-bit setting, I can enter 5 characters of text or 10 hex digits.....I used 5 text. (I only entered one key--the rest are blank.)

In the laptop wireless setup, there is a control to specify whether the key is ascii (text) or hex.

The 4 dns keys are generated by the router and they are in hex. The first key is the key that I specified for the router to use if another computer wanted to connect to it wirelessly. Vansch76 calls them passphrases. Also can this be done from the terminal instead of the gui. I think my problem is that wlan0 does not identify the router settings and I may just have to alter it manually using the terminal. Is there a way to do this by putting the gateway address, ip address, and domain address all in wlan0 manually?