trying to connect to my friends wlan using wifi-radar in Debian 4.
I get this in the terminal.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
invalid argument "X000138883245".
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:14:a4:69:ad:13
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:14:a4:69:ad:13
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21

Can't connect: seems it doesn't like the wep key, although it is the correct one. No secrets on this machine so not too worried about the security issue of wep, just want to connect.

Any tips?

This is the wifi-rafdar.conf:

[DEFAULT]
ifup_required = False
auto_profile_order = Jack
speak_up = False
scan_timeout = 5
interface = eth1
commit_required = False

[Jack]
prescript =
use_wpa = no
postscript =
mode = auto
key =
use_dhcp = yes
security =
channel = auto

This is what I get from iwlist key:
eth1 2 key sizes : 40, 104bits
4 keys available :
[1]: off
[2]: off
[3]: off
[4]: off
Current Transmit Key: [1]
Authentication capabilities :
WPA
WPA2
CIPHER TKIP
CIPHER CCMP

Does this mean I can't use wep keys with wifi-radar?

iwlist scan comes up with this:
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:01:38:874:25
ESSID:"WLAN_45"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=100/100 Signal level=-186 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 208ms ago

You might want to wait for replies before making 4 posts in a row. At 2:41 AM PST, much of the US is still asleep, and most Europeans are already at work. This leaves asia and people in the middle of the Atlantic on cruise ships...

Have you tried entering the WEP key with "s:" ?

I don't think wi-fi radar gives you the option of an ascii entry.....If your key is---e.g---"spain", then enter "s:spain"

Well, sent all the info I could, so some expert out there would have something to go on.
Under Debian Admin there is a menu Networking. I set the wep key there, which can accept ASCII. Wifi radar picks that up. But doesn't connect on clicking connect. Trys to, but times out. The led on the router doesn't flash, so my machine is not talking to it!
Took the wep key out of wifi-radar.conf, as it didn't seem to like it, but still no luck.
Did get it running under kwifimanager and Suse. But my nephew says Debian is better. Not sure there.

Will try with s:thekey though, if it works, buy you a beer!

Better for who? SUSE is very good, as is PCLinuxOS.

The fact that your wireless worked with kwifimanager says this one is surely going to get solved.

Are you by any chance using any special characters in the WEP key?