WPA2 and PSK in Fedora 11
 

After getting the b43 drivers and firmware working in Fedora 11 for my on-board Broadcom BCM4306 adapter, I need to figure out how to enter an ASCII pre-shared key for WPA2 ... the network manager keeps asking me for a key over and over, and when I enter one, it times out and comes back ... I do get a list of available wireless networks, but I can't join the right one. I've also tried to enter a key with 'iwconfig', but I can't seem to figure out the syntax for a string-based key:Aside from this, I get the following dialog pop-up constantly:
Authentication required by wireless network
Passwords or encryption keys are required to access the wireless network 'mynetwork'.
Wireless security: WPA & WPA2 Personal <- drop-down box with only one choice
Password: .....
Show password: <-- when enabled, the above shows my network password in hex. If I overwrite the hex with the ascii string and connect again, no change: it just comes back again and asks for the password.

key s:<text> is for WEP and not for WPA
for WPA2 PSK you might have to use wpa_supplicant

in some OS like debian you can directly give the passphrase in the /etc/network/interfaces file.

If you are talking about hex key.. is this WEP or WPA ?

bhaslinux: it's an ASCII string in a pre-shared key in WPA2. Fedora doesn't seem to have an 'interfaces' file there.

I'm having the same issue, but with BOTH WPA and WEP.

I can connect at seemingly random for a few minutes, but then I'm prompted for my key again, and it's not accepted.

It looks like my issue may not be with WPA2 or even encryption in general after all ... I completely disabled security briefly on my router and got the following while trying to connect, and wicd gui reported an error:

If you are using NetworkManager, you can edit the connection and enter it in the password field. It gets saved in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/key-wlan0. The entry will be
wpa-keys='yourasciikey'