Public Wireless, but with "WEP" password
I have a Toshiba Satellite 1415-s173 (IntelP4 1.8G, 512MB, 30G HDD, running WinXP Home and Mandrake LE 2005) The wireless card is internal and I have no idea what type it is, except that it is 802.11b. I got it off of eBay and the drive it came with is not even XP tested, but it works perfect for me. I do not have any type of internet access at home and the place I usually use the net is at the library. Here is where the problem is. There, they issue a network password to every person that wants to use their router. Is the same password for everyone, it just changes everyday. Well, my problem is, how do I set the connection in Linux? In WinXP I just right click the wireless connection icon in the network folder and go to Properties->Wireless tab->Highlight the network name->Properties-> network key-> OK->OK->OK. How do I do this in Mandrake? I tried to set up the card using the wizard and the card receives the signal, but won't connect, because I have no clue where I would input the password. Thanks in advance. Also, I didn't know how to disable the card afterwards, so later when I rebooted, it took few minutes while it was trying to find the network again. How can I set it so its easy to just enable and disable card on the fly instead of using the wizard?
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