Hey all

I'm trying to get Kanotix runnin with my acx100 TI chipset card.

I have it all running nice and neat until I turn my WEP on, then Pump fails. The router won't talk to the card any more. With WEP turned off, things are groovy.

My (munged) hex WEP passowrd is 38F14FFCF7. I know it's the right one because I have 3 computers on this router and they all have that password in them and they work.

I'm using 'iwconfig wlan0 key 38F14FFCF7 open' which takes, and then 'pump -i wlan0'. It pauses for a good minute and then gives me an 'operation failed' message.

when I do a iwconfig it shows the key as 38F1-4FFC-F7.

I must be putting the password in wrong or something, but I can't see the forest for the trees.

Anyone have any idea what I'm missing here?

Thanks!

Have you tried it without the 'open' bit? I don't specify 'open' on my WLAN network at home, which uses 128 bit WEP for encryption.

Hmmm....I've tried it with restricted, but never with nothing at all. I'll give that a s whirl.

Thanks!

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I forgot to post back...

Switching to a 128bit WEP key solved the problem. I don't know why, but it all works now

That's interesting to see that key length affects throughput. I can't imagine why myself.

It's not throughput that was the problem, my router would simply refuse to issue an IP address to my nic using a 64bit key.

I've been running a 64bit key under FC3 for months now without a problem, but I don't use ndiswrappers on my FC box. So I'm not really sure if the problem is with Kanotix or ndiswrappers.