On Tuesday 07 February 2006 12:40 pm, Grant wrote: > Hello, my housing complex just switched to an Airport router and I > can't seem to connect. They are supposedly using WEP. There was a > 5-character psk at first and wpa_supplicant told me it was an invalid > key and it had to be at least 8 characters. They switched it to a > 13-character psk and I still can't connect, although I don't get the > invalid key error now. Does anyone know how to connect to a WEP > Airport router with Gentoo? Everyone else is using Windows and Mac > and they are connecting just fine. I've tried lots of different > configurations in wpa_supplicant.conf to no avail and all of my > software is up to date. > > - Grant >
Well, this is, if not the right way, at least A way to do it... iwconfig eth1 essid "whatevertheairportnetworknameis" iwconfig eth1 key xxxx-xxxx-xx ifconfig eth1 up dchpcd eth1 That's the script I hacked out to connect to our local WEP encrypted Airport. Your milage may vary. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
