[gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

[Peter Kelly]

Holas!

I recently bought a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop.  I purposely got an Intel 3945 
wireless card installed, because I read that it was more linux friendly than 
the dell wireless card.

I emerge'd  ipw3945, but can't get it to work.  I get an error 

error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) 
Operation not supported

when I run 
# iwconfig eth1 key "26 hex character key"

when trying to set the the encryption key for my home network.  I'm certainly 
not going to turn off WEP encryption, so I need to fix this.
I've got a crappy 6 year old computer using a pcmcia and the airo module that 
has no issues at all.  I used the same /etc/conf.d/wireless file, so that 
essid, key, etc, were all from a working setup.

I'm sure that I'm doing something so simply wrong, that the 4 hour delay to 
figure out that /dev/sda6 requires scsi sata drivers built into the kernel, 
will make this seem stupid.

It's currently off building KDE/X on the only available wired jack in the 
house (who thought I'd ever need 13 switch connections?), so if I mis-typed 
something, I apologize.  Please ask.

Thanks.

Peter
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