Hi,

I've frustratingly spent the last 2 hours trying to connect my laptop running ubuntu 10.4 to my WEP wlan (I know its not secure but I cant afford a replacement). Seems the problem maybe with the ascii key lenght. Its 10 numeric digits similar to this 1234567891

All my devices android phone, PS3 and windows desktop connect fine but linux wont have it.

iwconfig wlan0 essid wireless key s:1234567891 gives an error
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

which i think means its not happy with the key length even though its correct.

wicd manager gets stuck trying to obtain am ip address.

I've tried installing network-manager but the applet says wirless device network not managed?

I'm not changing the key to 5 or 13 characters and reconfiguring all my other devices so how do I connect linux to this network??

Thanks in advance for any help.

Back to Windows 7 for me

Try without 's:'

Thanks but i already tried that its a passphrase not hex so its probably passing the wrong password. I've used linux on and off for over 5 years and something like this always send me back to windows.

I'm sure most people in this forum would disagree but after 5 years of being sick of windows and trying linux I've realised Windows is just a better OS. There is nothing linux can do that windows cant and linux is full of crap like this. Linux cant connect to a wireless network with a 10 key passphrase! What a joke.

If you had read the man page for iwconfig you'd see that passphrase is not supported, passphrases and keys are 2 different things. Try using Network Manager to connect to the network instead ...