question

[Tom Wilson]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 15:52, Rick Sivernell wrote:
[snip of success story]
> 
>    I have gentoo 2.4.20r8 on a Dell Latitude CPx650. I do have a question here.
> On my router there is a place to set encryption keys, 4 each. Now this is for the
> 64 bit / 128 bit encryption. Is there a standard type or range of numbers used
> here or what ever you like.  I assume the numbers here must match those in
> wlan.conf. SSID, on router it is defualt, should that be used in system conf
> files or is there something else to use, this machine will be used in multi
> locations.  Many thanks to any & all help

Encryption must match in the WAP conf and the card conf.  On the WAP's
that I have configured, 3COM access point 6000's via a browser, you can
log into the WAP and can select either none, 40 or 128 encryption.  Then
what I did was select type a passphrase.  I entered the passphrase then
clicked the "Specify shared keys" option.  This grayed out my passphrase
and I clicked a link that open a window and had the hex that it
converted my passphrase to.   Then use converted hex on the card
config.  May seem like a lot of trouble but the passphrases weren't
working for some reason.

IIRC, the SSID should be the same on both.  


Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.771.1400 x124 
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