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On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Peter Kelly wrote: |
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> Holas! |
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> I recently bought a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop. I purposely got an Intel 3945 |
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> wireless card installed, because I read that it was more linux friendly than |
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> the dell wireless card. |
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> I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. I get an error |
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> error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) |
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> Operation not supported |
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> when I run |
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> # iwconfig eth1 key "26 hex character key" |
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> when trying to set the the encryption key for my home network. I'm certainly |
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> not going to turn off WEP encryption, so I need to fix this. |
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Maybe you need to modprobe ieee80211_crypt_wep and the relevant crypto |
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algorithm modules? That's what I remember being the issue when the card |
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generally works but WEP doesn't. I think the older wifi supporting code |
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doesn't let you separate this stuff out, while the new code doesn't |
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automatically handle loading modules when necessary. I remember dmesg |
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being more informative than iwconfig when it fails, also. |
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-Daniel |
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